William S. Dato
Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, 4th District 2017– · Judge, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego 2003–2017
A++
93% — 70 of 75 rulings upheld, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 2% of 312 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.
38cases reviewed on appeal
14%reversed, in whole or part, of 36 merits decisions
Outcomes on appeal
affirmed 31 reversed in part 4 writ denied 1 reversed 1 dismissed 1
Areas
By year: 2014 15 · 2013 13 · 2015 7 · 2016 3 ·
Analysis
69reviewed cases analysed
245rulings read
0rulings where the model disagrees with the court
15cases with a verified missed authority
0appellate opinions called questionable
Counts of a model's readings across this judge's reviewed cases, each shown on its case page beside the court's disposition. Not a finding about the judge.
Cases
- Mendez v. Rancho Valencia Resort Partners
- Mendez v. Rancho Valencia Resort Partners CA4/1
- Hernandez v. Restoration Hardware, Inc.
- City of San Diego v. Caryon Properties CA4/1
- Shore v. Waring Court etc. Med. Group CA4/1
- Banks v. General Atomics CA4/1
- Banks v. General Atomics CA4/1
- Welch v. University of San Diego CA4/1
- Uriell v. Regents of UC
- Uriell v. Regents of University of California
- Montgomery v. Klinedinst CA4/1
- Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation v. City of San Diego CA4/1
- Holguin v. Dish Network LLC
- Marcisz v. Ultrastar Cinemas CA4/1
- Gerber v. Sweetwater Union High School Dist. CA4/1
- Vissuet v. Bank of America CA4/1
- Marsh v. Anesthesia Services Medical Group CA4/1
- Helping Hand Tools v. San Diego Air Pollution Cont. Dist. etc. CA4/1
- Stahl Law Firm v. Apex Medical Technologies CA4/1
- Little v. Nau CA4/1
- Openiano v. Hammer CA4/1
- Falcon v. Long Beach Genetics, Inc.
- Ondraka v. Bochinski, Inc. CA4/1
- Kahn v. Dillon CA4/1
- Lexin v. City of San Diego