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 reviewed on appeal (every role)
- Francisco Martinez v. Adolfo Gonzalez
- Anh Tuyet Thai v. Andrew Saul
- United States v. Joanna Razo
- United States v. Luis Mayea-Pulido
- Don Higginson v. Xavier Becerra
- United States v. Michael Peterson
- Diego Valencia v. John Weis, I
- James Linlor v. Chase Bankcard Services, Inc.
- United States v. Mario Rubi
- Eric Cowan v. Josie Gastelo
- Larry Kerns v. Mathew Wenner
- Rashad Scott v. W. Montgomery
- United States v. Jose Medina-Jimenez
- S.R. Nehad v. Neal Browder
- United States v. Willie Jones, Jr.
- United States v. Willie Jones, Jr.
- United States v. Daniel Verdin
- Estate of Timothy Gene Smith v. Daniel Escamilla
- United States v. Jose Milanez
- Matthew Smeltzer v. Audrey King
- Gavin Davis v. Sdcsd
- United States v. Mustafa Ahmad Naushad
- United States v. Tamim Abdul-Samad
- Oscar Olivas v. David Salazar
- Frederic Schultz v. John Roberts, Jr.