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Todd W. Robinson

District judge · Superior Court of Southern District of California County · 2020–2026

Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2020–

B--
100% — 350.5 of 352 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 36% of 51 graded judges

On the assumption that the model is right — qwen3.8-27b's verdicts on a court's own orders matched a later appeal 76% of the time (104 of 136), graded on a curve: A is the top fifth of the judges graded under this model, F the bottom fifth; ++ / + / − / −− within the band. How the grade is made.

52cases reviewed on appeal
392opinions authored
392panels sat on (not as author)
23%reversed, in whole or part, of 47 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 36 reversed in part 5 reversed 4 vacated 2 remanded 2 dismissed 1

The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets

affirmed 15 reversed in part 3 reversed 3 remanded 1 dismissed 1

Each Ninth Circuit opinion that names a docket this judge wrote an order on, by its outcome; the ruling it reviewed is not always the order in the record. The order's page links the opinion.

Areas

civil 31 criminal 21

By year: 2024 15 · 2023 11 · 2026 9 · 2022 9 · 2025 7 · 2021 1 ·

Analysis

No analyses yet. When they exist, this shows counts of the model's findings across this judge's reviewed cases — with the court's own dispositions beside them, and only from 10 cases.

Cases

  1. 3:22-cv-00173 · 2026-04-20 · civil
  2. United States v. Gonzalez-Reyes 23-3532 · 2026-04-15 · criminal
  3. 3:26-cv-01972 · 2026-04-07 · civil
  4. 3:26-cv-01293 · 2026-04-03 · civil
  5. 3:25-cv-02947 · 2026-04-03 · civil
  6. 3:23-cv-01187 · 2026-04-03 · civil
  7. 3:21-cv-00812 · 2026-04-03 · civil
  8. 3:25-cv-02782 · 2026-04-01 · civil
  9. 3:26-cv-00141 · 2026-03-31 · civil
  10. United States v. Barnes 24-1613 · 2026-03-30 · civil · affirmed
  11. 3:25-cv-02465 · 2026-03-25 · civil
  12. 3:26-cv-01834 · 2026-03-24 · civil
  13. 3:26-cv-01032 · 2026-03-19 · civil
  14. 3:25-cv-03074 · 2026-03-19 · civil
  15. 3:25-cv-00660 · 2026-03-17 · civil
  16. 3:25-cv-01475 · 2026-03-16 · civil
  17. 3:24-cv-01818 · 2026-03-04 · civil
  18. 3:24-cv-00357 · 2026-03-03 · civil
  19. United States v. Smith 25-2177 · 2026-02-23 · civil · affirmed
  20. 3:23-cv-01187 · 2026-01-28 · civil
  21. Steeves v. United States Government 24-2935 · 2026-01-23 · civil · dismissed
  22. 3:24-cv-00357 · 2026-01-20 · civil
  23. 3:24-cv-00357 · 2026-01-16 · civil
  24. 3:24-cv-01179 · 2026-01-13 · civil
  25. 3:25-cv-02072 · 2026-01-05 · civil