William Q. Hayes
Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2003–
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.
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
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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 authored (every role)
- Casey v. General Motors, LLC
- Arnold v. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc.
- Trustees of the Teamsters Miscellaneous Security Trust Fund v. United International Health Net, Inc.
- D.C. v. County of San Diego
- Mascrenas v. Wagner
- Minden Pictures, Inc. v. Interpac Yachts, Inc.
- Gomez v. Madden
- Skanska USA Civil West California District Inc. v. National Interstate Insurance Company
- Austin v. Brown
- Williamson v. National City
- Buckelew v. Gore
- Lopez v. City of El Cajon
- Bennett v. Cielo Homeowners Association, Inc
- Firooz v. Takata Corporation
- Aton Center, Inc. v. Premera Blue Cross
- Aton Center, Inc. v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina
- Aton Center, Inc. v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois
- Aton Center, Inc. v. Regence Blue Shield of Washington
- Aton Center, Inc. v. Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon
- McMillan v. Chaker
- Newman v. Berryhill
- Barclay v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London
- Lewis v. Chase Airport Management Inc.
- Patton v. Flores
- Bradford v. Bracamonte