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
- Lexin v. City of San Diego
- Hedren v. Allen CA4/1
- Openiano v. First American Title CA4/1
- Yang v. Regents CA4/1
- Image 2000 Multimedia, Inc. v. Quin CA4/1
- Tiso v. Stier CA4/1
- Leo v. Golfsmith CA4/1
- Karty v. DePhilippis CA4/1
- Guess v. Significance Foundation CA4/1
- Battaglia Enterprises, Inc. v. Superior Court
- McKenna v. San Miguel Consolidated Fire Protection Dist. CA4/1
- Colgan v. Howell CA4/1
- Ramos v. Ralphs Grocery CA4/1