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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. 3:25-cv-01793 · 2026-01-05 · civil
  2. 3:23-cv-01187 · 2026-01-05 · civil
  3. 3:25-cv-02008 · 2025-12-09 · civil
  4. United States v. Espinoza 23-4156 · 2025-10-31 · criminal · affirmed
  5. 3:24-cv-01197 · 2025-10-30 · civil
  6. 3:25-cv-00491 · 2025-10-22 · civil
  7. 3:25-cv-00031 · 2025-10-22 · civil
  8. 3:25-cv-02582 · 2025-10-20 · civil
  9. 3:25-cv-00828 · 2025-10-20 · civil
  10. 3:21-cv-01620 · 2025-10-20 · civil
  11. 3:25-cv-02760 · 2025-10-17 · civil · other
  12. 3:25-cv-02739 · 2025-10-16 · civil · other
  13. 3:19-cv-01628 · 2025-10-16 · civil
  14. 3:24-cv-01197 · 2025-10-15 · civil
  15. 3:24-cv-02362 · 2025-10-15 · civil
  16. 3:24-cv-01811 · 2025-10-15 · civil
  17. United States v. Stephens 24-6889 · 2025-10-10 · criminal · affirmed
  18. United States v. Rabon 24-7066 · 2025-10-03 · criminal · vacated
  19. Pemberton v. Jack in the Box Inc. 3:24-cv-01179 · 2025-08-26 · civil
  20. Smith Interface Technologies, LLC v. Apple Inc. 3:23-cv-01187 · 2025-08-21 · civil
  21. Warren v. County of San Diego 3:25-cv-01866 · 2025-08-04 · civil
  22. Payne v. San Diego Police Department 3:25-cv-01380 · 2025-08-04 · civil
  23. Tercero v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC 3:24-cv-02084 · 2025-06-24 · civil
  24. Emert v. San Diego Probation Department 3:25-cv-00820 · 2025-06-18 · civil · other
  25. United States v. Michael Dunbar 23-50036 · 2025-05-09 · criminal · affirmed