Vincent A. Whelan
Judge, California Court of Appeal 1965–1986
A-
100% — 51.0 of 51 opinions sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 12% of 80 graded judges
On the assumption that the model is right — qwen3.8-27b reads the court's own disposition right 70% of the time, 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.
Analysis
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Cases authored (every role)
- Tu v. UCSD Medical Center
- Ever-Gotesco Resources & Holdings, Inc. v. PriceSmart, Inc.
- Phany Poeng v. United States
- Crawford v. MCI Worldcom Communications, Inc.
- Salcedo-Albanez v. United States
- Meridian Seafood Products, Inc. v. Fianzas Monterrey, S.A.
- Johnson v. Nelson
- DeMarco v. Depotech Corp.
- DeMarco v. DepoTech Corp.
- Reiger v. Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP
- Continental Laboratory Products, Inc. v. Medax International, Inc.
- Synbiotics Corp. v. Heska Corp.
- Clark v. Allstate Insurance
- Chu v. Syntron Bioresearch, Inc. (In Re Chu)
- Thrifty Oil Co. v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n (In Re Thrifty Oil Co.)
- Federal Deposit Insurance v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.
- Continental Laboratory Products, Inc. v. Medax International, Inc.
- Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd. v. Merck KGaA
- Maddux v. Philadelphia Life Insurance
- Adobe Systems, Inc. v. South Sun Products, Inc.
- Computer Economics, Inc. v. Gartner Group, Inc.
- Maldonado v. Fasano
- Lakeside Federation of Teachers, Local 2358 v. Board of Trustees
- Allen v. California Toll Bridge Authority
- Gamer v. duPont Glore Forgan, Inc.