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William Q. Hayes
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William Q. Hayes

District judge · Superior Court of Southern District of California County · 2005–2026

Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2003–

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98% — 459.5 of 467 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 74% 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.

176cases reviewed on appeal
528opinions authored
529panels sat on (not as author)
21%reversed, in whole or part, of 154 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 121 reversed 15 vacated 11 reversed in part 7 remanded 5 dismissed 4

The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets

affirmed 25 reversed in part 5 vacated 2 reversed 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 94 criminal 76 probate 5 other 1

By year: 2020 18 · 2019 17 · 2018 16 · 2025 14 · 2023 13 · 2024 11 · 2021 10 · 2011 10 · 2010 10 · 2022 9 · 2016 8 · 2017 6 · 2009 6 · 2013 5 · 2008 5 · 2026 4 · 2012 3 · 2006 3 · 2005 3 · 2014 2 · 2007 2 · 2015 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. United States v. Contreras-Vergara 24-6033 · 2026-02-06 · criminal · affirmed
  2. Wilson v. Gamboa 24-1818 · 2025-10-22 · criminal · affirmed
  3. United States v. Yafa 23-4330 · 2025-05-15 · criminal · affirmed
  4. United States v. Felipe-Zavala 23-2840 · 2025-04-18 · criminal · affirmed
  5. United States v. Ruiz-Rivera 23-3775 · 2025-02-12 · criminal · affirmed
  6. United States v. Fitzhugh 23-365 · 2024-09-04 · criminal · affirmed
  7. United States v. Anthony Navarro 22-50130 · 2024-02-27 · criminal · affirmed
  8. United States v. Robert Cota, Jr. 21-50094 · 2023-07-12 · criminal · affirmed
  9. United States v. David Jacquot 22-50116 · 2023-07-03 · criminal · affirmed
  10. United States v. Robert Cota, Jr. 21-50094 · 2023-05-16 · criminal · affirmed
  11. United States v. Jesus Covarruvias-Villareal 21-50310 · 2023-04-07 · criminal · affirmed
  12. United States v. Bobby Sehorn 21-50183 · 2023-01-20 · criminal · affirmed
  13. United States v. Carsten Rosenow 20-50052 · 2022-04-27 · criminal · affirmed
  14. Erik Le v. M. Spearman 18-56434 · 2021-10-25 · criminal · affirmed
  15. United States v. Jose Garcia-Munguia 20-50066 · 2021-06-15 · criminal · affirmed
  16. Anthony Penton v. A. Malfi 19-56201 · 2021-04-16 · criminal
  17. United States v. Victor Rodriguez 19-50238 · 2021-04-09 · criminal · affirmed
  18. United States v. Keith Lott 17-55187 · 2021-01-26 · criminal · affirmed
  19. United States v. Lamont Nelson 17-55246 · 2021-01-26 · criminal · affirmed
  20. United States v. Pablo Magana 19-50374 · 2020-12-07 · criminal · affirmed
  21. Geronimo Polina v. W. Montgomery 18-56166 · 2020-10-21 · criminal · affirmed
  22. United States v. Juan Tinoco-Garcia 19-50145 · 2020-09-30 · criminal
  23. Kelly Sundberg v. Harold Oreol 19-55371 · 2020-05-01 · criminal · affirmed
  24. United States v. Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas 18-50195 · 2020-04-13 · criminal · affirmed
  25. Francisco Martinez v. Adolfo Gonzalez 19-55440 · 2020-03-06 · criminal · affirmed