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)
- United States v. Younes Nasri
- Raya v. Barka
- Rosenow v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
- United States v. Contreras-Vergara
- United States v. Jorge Moraga-Valdez
- McKinley v. Hugie
- Edleson v. Travel Insured International, Inc.
- Wilson v. Gamboa
- Ruiz v. the Bradford Exchange, Ltd.
- Alonso v. Quan
- Nguyen v. Bonta
- United States v. Yafa
- United States v. Yafa
- Marlin Royal v. Raymond Madden
- United States v. Felipe-Zavala
- Anh Thai v. County of Los Angeles
- United States v. Ruiz-Rivera
- Anh Thai v. County of Los Angeles
- United States v. Ellison
- United States v. Younes Nasri
- Gadsden v. McGrath
- United States v. Fitzhugh
- Rincon Mushroom Corporation of America v. Bo Mazzetti
- Estate of Timothy Gene Smith v. Dan Escamilla
- Dean Steeves v. Irs