| Judge | County | Cases | Granted | Denied | Continued | Grant rate |
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| Judge | County | Cases | Granted | Denied | Continued | Grant rate |
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| Judge | County | Cases | Granted | Denied | Continued | Grant rate |
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| Charles F. Haines | San Francisco County | 3,282 | 530 | 411 | 933 | 16% |
| Joseph M. Quinn | San Francisco County | 2,734 | 893 |
Use the search bar on DecisionDepot's judge directory to find any California Superior Court judge by name. Each judge's profile shows their overall grant rate, denial rate, and continuance rate derived from all indexed tentative rulings, plus a motion-type breakdown so you can see how they rule on demurrers, summary judgments, motions to compel, and other common motions separately.
DecisionDepot's judge directory can be sorted by grant rate (click the 'Grant rate' column header). Grant rates vary widely by judge and by motion type — always check the full motion-type breakdown on a judge's individual profile. Data is derived from publicly posted tentative rulings across 34+ California Superior Courts.
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| Christine Van Aken | San Francisco County | 1,516 | 512 | 237 | 192 | 34% |
| Denise M. Hippach | Santa Barbara County | 708 | 72 | 10 | 367 | 10% |
| Colleen Sterne | Santa Barbara County | 698 | 113 | 16 | 66 | 16% |
| James F. Rigali | Santa Barbara County | 633 | 21 | 1 | 188 | 3% |
| Jed Beebe | Santa Barbara County | 589 | 30 | 4 | 50 | 5% |
| James T. Chou | Marin County | 579 | 135 | 10 | 123 | 23% |
| Patricia Kelly | Santa Barbara County | 481 | 11 | 6 | 81 | 2% |
| Harold E. Kahn | San Francisco County | 462 | 157 | 57 | 54 | 34% |
| Stephanie L. Jamieson | Merced County | 453 | 97 | 34 | 50 | 21% |
| Unknown | San Francisco County | 450 | 110 | 77 | 110 | 24% |
| Timothy Staffel | Santa Barbara County | 423 | 29 | 0 | 69 | 7% |
| Richard C. Miadich | Sacramento County | 423 | 153 | 67 | 95 | 36% |
| Unknown | El Dorado County | 367 | 91 | 50 | 71 | 25% |
| Cynthia P. Smith | Napa County | 324 | 110 | 22 | 95 | 34% |
| Not Specified | Shasta County | 308 | 61 | 20 | 145 | 20% |
| Thomas Anderle | Santa Barbara County | 295 | 109 | 61 | 33 | 37% |
| Unknown | Shasta County | 295 | 80 | 17 | 152 | 27% |
| Unknown | Los Angeles County | 286 | 139 | 54 | 20 | 49% |
| Bobby P. Luna | San Francisco County | 281 | 52 | 39 | 55 | 19% |
| Ai Mori | San Francisco County | 277 | 56 | 28 | 81 | 20% |
| Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County | 272 | 84 | 52 | 52 | 31% |
| Matthew A. Siroka | Marin County | 260 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4% |
| William Abramson | Plumas County | 259 | 20 | 1 | 31 | 8% |
| Ronald E. Quidachay | San Francisco County | 249 | 57 | 24 | 72 | 23% |
| Patrick McKinney | Alameda County | 246 | 110 | 29 | 67 | 45% |
| Benson | Butte County | 243 | 118 | 22 | 43 | 49% |
| Jamilah A. Jefferson | Alameda County | 236 | 88 | 11 | 44 | 37% |
| Not specified | Nevada County | 233 | 28 | 6 | 119 | 12% |
| Joseph J. Solga | Napa County | 217 | 100 | 16 | 60 | 46% |
| Not Specified | Butte County | 214 | 64 | 3 | 81 | 30% |
| Trisha J. Hirashima | Placer County | 214 | 77 | 49 | 48 | 36% |
| Julie G. Yap | Sacramento County | 213 | 58 | 51 | 49 | 27% |
| Samuel K. Feng | San Francisco County | 210 | 57 | 24 | 42 | 27% |
| Layne H. Melzer | Orange County | 209 | 82 | 18 | 59 | 39% |
| Nahal Iravani-Sani | Santa Clara County | 205 | 91 | 43 | 14 | 44% |
| Unknown | Nevada County | 190 | 23 | 4 | 98 | 12% |
| Rafael Sivilla-Jones | Santa Clara County | 190 | 101 | 37 | 8 | 53% |
| David J. Hesseltine | Orange County | 189 | 67 | 43 | 48 | 35% |
| Jeffrey B. El-Hajj | Santa Clara County | 188 | 88 | 34 | 16 | 47% |
| Kristi Culver Kapetan | Fresno County | 181 | 65 | 49 | 14 | 36% |
| TIM P. KAM | Solano County | 180 | 64 | 35 | 35 | 36% |
| Michelle Tong | San Francisco County | 178 | 25 | 27 | 48 | 14% |
| David Foster | Merced County | 174 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 10% |
| John M. True III | San Francisco County | 173 | 53 | 19 | 33 | 31% |
| Eunice Lee | Santa Clara County | 170 | 68 | 23 | 12 | 40% |
| Michael W. Jones | Placer County | 169 | 52 | 40 | 30 | 31% |
| Sheila Recio | Orange County | 169 | 38 | 29 | 2 | 22% |
| Dennis W. Hayashi | San Francisco County | 169 | 25 | 8 | 25 | 15% |