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William S. Dato

Judge · Superior Court of San Diego County · 2013–2016

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

civil 38

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

  1. Mendez v. Rancho Valencia Resort Partners D067899 · 2016-09-13 · civil · affirmed
  2. Mendez v. Rancho Valencia Resort Partners CA4/1 D067899 · 2016-08-26 · civil · affirmed
  3. City of San Diego v. Caryon Properties CA4/1 D065915 · 2015-08-31 · civil · affirmed
  4. Shore v. Waring Court etc. Med. Group CA4/1 D065306 · 2015-06-03 · civil · affirmed
  5. Welch v. University of San Diego CA4/1 D064508 · 2015-04-02 · civil · affirmed
  6. Uriell v. Regents of UC D064098 · 2015-02-20 · civil · affirmed
  7. Uriell v. Regents of University of California D064098 · 2015-01-29 · civil · affirmed
  8. Montgomery v. Klinedinst CA4/1 D063946 · 2014-12-31 · civil · affirmed
  9. Holguin v. Dish Network LLC D059983 · 2014-09-22 · civil · affirmed
  10. Marcisz v. Ultrastar Cinemas CA4/1 D063902 · 2014-08-29 · civil · affirmed
  11. Gerber v. Sweetwater Union High School Dist. CA4/1 D063576 · 2014-07-29 · civil · affirmed
  12. Vissuet v. Bank of America CA4/1 D063524 · 2014-06-19 · civil · affirmed
  13. Helping Hand Tools v. San Diego Air Pollution Cont. Dist. etc. CA4/1 D063313 · 2014-04-30 · civil · affirmed
  14. Stahl Law Firm v. Apex Medical Technologies CA4/1 D063411 · 2014-04-29 · civil · affirmed
  15. Little v. Nau CA4/1 D063792 · 2014-04-15 · civil · affirmed
  16. Openiano v. Hammer CA4/1 D062157 · 2014-03-25 · civil · affirmed
  17. Falcon v. Long Beach Genetics, Inc. D062807 · 2014-03-21 · civil · affirmed
  18. Ondraka v. Bochinski, Inc. CA4/1 D060970 · 2014-02-14 · civil · affirmed
  19. Kahn v. Dillon CA4/1 D062715 · 2014-01-27 · civil · affirmed
  20. Lexin v. City of San Diego D062970M · 2014-01-22 · civil · affirmed
  21. Lexin v. City of San Diego D062970 · 2013-12-23 · civil · affirmed
  22. Hedren v. Allen CA4/1 D061186 · 2013-12-16 · civil · affirmed
  23. Openiano v. First American Title CA4/1 D061414 · 2013-09-26 · civil · affirmed
  24. Yang v. Regents CA4/1 D062755 · 2013-09-24 · civil · affirmed
  25. Image 2000 Multimedia, Inc. v. Quin CA4/1 D061776 · 2013-09-16 · civil · affirmed