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William Y. Wood

Judge · Superior Court of San Diego County · 2014–2026

Sitting now: Dept. 29, North County Court — CIVIL IC (the court's data of 01:00AM 15 Oct 2026)

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego 2018– · , Superior Court of California, County of San Diego 2009–2018

B-
71% — 17 of 24 rulings upheld, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 34% 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.

17cases reviewed on appeal
24%reversed, in whole or part, of 17 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 11 reversed in part 2 reversed 2 modified 2

Areas

family 8 criminal 5 civil 4

By year: 2025 3 · 2022 3 · 2021 3 · 2024 2 · 2023 2 · 2026 1 · 2018 1 · 2016 1 · 2014 1 ·

Analysis

32reviewed cases analysed
79rulings read
0rulings where the model disagrees with the court
5cases 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. Skeen v. Minicilli CA4/1 D086666 · 2026-07-30 · civil · affirmed
  2. Ghilezan v. Huber CA4/1 D084588 · 2025-12-19 · civil · affirmed
  3. People v. Hernandez CA4/1 D083363 · 2025-11-05 · criminal · affirmed
  4. Barkley v. Fahim CA4/1 D084499 · 2025-10-16 · civil · reversed in part
  5. People v. Buchan CA4/1 D082449 · 2024-10-24 · criminal · modified
  6. People v. Siulua CA4/1 D083325 · 2024-08-16 · criminal · affirmed
  7. Marriage of D. CA4/1 D080760 · 2023-09-21 · family · affirmed
  8. Marriage of Fidelman CA4/1 D079402 · 2023-07-20 · family · affirmed
  9. T.D. v. C.F. CA4/1 D079554 · 2022-07-27 · family · reversed
  10. Marriage of G.S. and A.S. CA4/1 D077754 · 2022-05-19 · family · affirmed
  11. Marriage of Metzler CA4/1 D078715 · 2022-05-04 · family · affirmed
  12. People v. Osbourne CA4/1 D077000 · 2021-06-17 · criminal · reversed in part
  13. Thomas v. Blue CA4/1 D076222 · 2021-03-26 · civil · affirmed
  14. People v. Sorto CA4/1 D076931 · 2021-03-10 · criminal · modified
  15. Marriage of T.C. and D.C. D073182 · 2018-12-18 · family · reversed
  16. Elena S. v. Kroutik D068831 · 2016-05-18 · family · affirmed
  17. Richard B. v. C.W. CA4/1 D063423 · 2014-01-23 · family · affirmed