| 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 | 2,353 | 395 | 311 | 654 | 17% |
| Joseph M. Quinn | San Francisco County | 2,236 | 736 | 435 |
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| 33% |
| Christine Van Aken | San Francisco County | 955 | 334 | 148 | 108 | 35% |
| Unknown | San Francisco County | 350 | 90 | 65 | 80 | 26% |
| Ronald E. Quidachay | San Francisco County | 249 | 57 | 24 | 72 | 23% |
| Patricia Kelly | Santa Barbara County | 196 | 8 | 4 | 67 | 4% |
| Unknown | El Dorado County | 177 | 64 | 15 | 18 | 36% |
| John M. True III | San Francisco County | 173 | 53 | 19 | 33 | 31% |
| Timothy Staffel | Santa Barbara County | 170 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Michelle Tong | San Francisco County | 135 | 21 | 19 | 39 | 16% |
| Unknown | Shasta County | 131 | 25 | 8 | 66 | 19% |
| Not Specified | Butte County | 127 | 59 | 1 | 48 | 46% |
| Harold E. Kahn | San Francisco County | 123 | 31 | 12 | 28 | 25% |
| William Abramson | Plumas County | 120 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3% |
| James F. Rigali | Santa Barbara County | 104 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 0% |
| Samuel K. Feng | San Francisco County | 103 | 25 | 11 | 21 | 24% |
| Ai Mori | San Francisco County | 101 | 20 | 9 | 29 | 20% |
| Jed Beebe | Santa Barbara County | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Benson | Butte County | 99 | 50 | 9 | 14 | 51% |
| Colleen Sterne | Santa Barbara County | 96 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 20% |
| James T. Chou | Marin County | 93 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 14% |
| Not specified | Nevada County | 91 | 8 | 4 | 43 | 9% |
| Bobby P. Luna | San Francisco County | 90 | 20 | 10 | 19 | 22% |
| Dennis W. Hayashi | San Francisco County | 87 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 21% |
| Stephanie L. Jamieson | Merced County | 85 | 26 | 3 | 9 | 31% |
| Denise M. Hippach | Santa Barbara County | 85 | 13 | 6 | 51 | 15% |
| Cynthia P. Smith | Napa County | 80 | 29 | 2 | 17 | 36% |
| Unknown | Nevada County | 68 | 7 | 0 | 39 | 10% |
| Michael W. Jones | Placer County | 66 | 23 | 12 | 11 | 35% |
| Ethan P. Schulman | San Francisco County | 66 | 24 | 4 | 9 | 36% |
| Thomas Anderle | Santa Barbara County | 56 | 27 | 9 | 6 | 48% |
| Trisha J. Hirashima | Placer County | 56 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 39% |
| Joseph J. Solga | Napa County | 50 | 20 | 4 | 11 | 40% |
| Layne H. Melzer | Orange County | 47 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 21% |
| Nahal Iravani-Sani | Santa Clara County | 47 | 20 | 10 | 3 | 43% |
| Kimberly Knill | Orange County | 44 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 45% |
| Richard Oberholzer | Orange County | 44 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 23% |
| Carmen R. Luege | Orange County | 43 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 23% |
| Unknown | Los Angeles County | 42 | 23 | 3 | 5 | 55% |
| Kristi Culver Kapetan | Fresno County | 41 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 22% |
| Rafael Sivilla-Jones | Santa Clara County | 38 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 55% |
| Nathan Vu | Orange County | 38 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 26% |
| Mosbarger | Butte County | 37 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 43% |
| Mary E. Wiss | San Francisco County | 37 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 11% |
| Donald F. Gaffney | Orange County | 36 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 39% |
| Gassia Apkarian | Orange County | 34 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 38% |
| Jeffrey B. El-Hajj | Santa Clara County | 34 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 47% |
| Not Specified | Sonoma County | 34 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 12% |
| Sheila S. Lichtblau | Marin County | 34 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 38% |
| Eunice Lee | Santa Clara County | 33 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 33% |