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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. Sims v. Bird 3:23-cv-00463 · 2023-03-27 · civil
  2. Taction Technology, Inc. v. Apple Inc. 3:21-cv-00812 · 2023-03-20 · civil
  3. Williams v. Fisher 3:23-cv-00423 · 2023-03-20 · civil · other
  4. Richardson v. Frazier 3:22-cv-01447 · 2023-03-20 · civil · dismissed
  5. Yescas v. McCourt 3:23-cv-00106 · 2023-03-20 · civil
  6. Goatpix, LLC v. The Upper Deck Company 3:21-cv-01815 · 2023-03-14 · civil
  7. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chiang 3:22-cv-00600 · 2023-03-09 · civil
  8. Chavez v. United States 3:22-cv-01182 · 2023-03-09 · civil
  9. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Armijo 3:21-cv-01107 · 2023-03-08 · civil
  10. Zamfir v. Casperlabs, LLC 3:21-cv-00474 · 2023-03-08 · civil
  11. Kistler v. Atchley 3:21-cv-02002 · 2023-03-07 · civil · other
  12. Cadles of West Virginia, LLC v. Alvarez 3:20-cv-02534 · 2023-02-27 · civil
  13. Taction Technology, Inc. v. Apple Inc. 3:21-cv-00812 · 2023-02-24 · civil
  14. Okai v. Kaiser Permanente CSC 3:22-cv-00112 · 2023-02-21 · civil
  15. Szanto v. Bank of New York 3:22-cv-01857 · 2023-02-21 · civil
  16. Zest Anchors, LLC v. Geryon Ventures, LLC 3:22-cv-00230 · 2023-02-21 · civil
  17. Sana Kappouta v. Valiant Integrated Services 21-56310 · 2023-02-21 · civil · affirmed
  18. Constitution Association, Inc. v. Kamala Harris 21-56287 · 2023-01-26 · civil · affirmed
  19. Michael Dunbar v. Raul Campos, Jr. 22-55848 · 2023-01-25 · criminal · affirmed
  20. Gopher Media LLC v. Modern Doc Media 3:22-cv-00131 · 2023-01-20 · civil
  21. Shachno v. Marriott International, INC. 3:22-cv-01215 · 2023-01-19 · civil
  22. Pies-Lonsdale v. Lemus 3:22-cv-00309 · 2023-01-18 · civil
  23. Waters v. Vroom Inc. 3:22-cv-01191 · 2023-01-13 · civil
  24. King v. Bird 3:22-cv-00031 · 2023-01-12 · civil · other
  25. Thompson v. Pfeiffer 3:22-cv-01891 · 2023-01-12 · civil · other