Common Pleas Court

Judge Disposed Appealed Reversed Court

Fred Cartolano 3037 137 12 Common

Thomas Crush 3372 119 10 Common

Patrick Dinkelacker 1258 44 8 Common

Timothy Hogan 1954 60 7 Common

Robert Kraft 3138 127 7 Common
William Mathews 2264 91 18 Common

William Morrissey 3032 121 22 Common

Norbert Nadel 2959 131 20 Common
Arthur Ney Jr. 3219 125 14 Common
Richard Niehaus 3353 137 16 Common
Thomas Nurre 3000 121 6 Common
John O'Connor 2969 129 12 Common
Robert Ruehlman 3205 145 18 Common
J. Howard Sundermann Jr. 955 60 10 Common
Ann Marie Tracey 3141 127 13 Common
Ralph Winkler 3089 88 6 Common
Total 43945 1762 199
Domestic Relations Court
Penelope Cunningham 2729 7 1 Domestic
Patrick Dinkelacker 6001 19 4 Domestic
Deborah Gaines 8799 48 9 Domestic
Ronald Panioto 12970 32 3 Domestic
Total 30499 106 17
Municaipal Court
Mike Allen 6149 43 4 Muni
Nadine Allen 7812 34 6 Muni
Timothy Black 7954 41 6 Muni
David Davis 7736 43 5 Muni
Leslie Isaiah Gaines 5282 35 13 Muni
Karla Grady 5253 6 0 Muni
Deidra Hair 2532 5 0 Muni
Dennis Helmick 7900 29 5 Muni
Timothy Hogan 2308 13 2 Muni
James Patrick Kenney 2798 6 1 Muni
Joseph Luebbers 4698 25 8 Muni
William Mallory 8277 38 9 Muni
Melba Marsh 8219 34 7 Muni
Beth Mattingly 2971 13 1 Muni
Albert Mestemaker 4975 28 9 Muni
Mark Painter 2239 7 3 Muni
Jack Rosen 7790 41 13 Muni
Mark Schweikert 5403 33 6 Muni
David Stockdale 5371 22 4 Muni
John A. West 2797 4 2 Muni
Total 108464 500 104
 1. Probability of cases being appelaed and reversed in all 3 courts
common Domestic Municipal
relations
p(appealed) =Total no of 0.0401 0.0035 0.0046
cases appealed in common
court/(total no of cases
disposed)
0.0045 0.0006 0.0010
p(reversed) = Total no cases
reversed in common
court/(Total no of cases
disposed in common court

2. Probability of a case being appealed for each judge

3. Probability of a case neing reversed for each judge AND
4. Probabilty of reversal given an appeal for each judge

Judge Disposed Appealed Reversed p(appealed)

Fred Cartolano 3037 137 12 0.0451
Thomas Crush 3372 119 10 0.0353
Patrick Dinkelacker 1258 44 8 0.0350
Timothy Hogan 1954 60 7 0.0307
Robert Kraft 3138 127 7 0.0405
William Mathews 2264 91 18 0.0402
William Morrissey 3032 121 22 0.0399
Norbert Nadel 2959 131 20 0.0443
Arthur Ney Jr. 3219 125 14 0.0388
Richard Niehaus 3353 137 16 0.0409
Thomas Nurre 3000 121 6 0.0403
John O'Connor 2969 129 12 0.0434
Robert Ruehlman 3205 145 18 0.0452
J. Howard Sundermann Jr. 955 60 10 0.0628
Ann Marie Tracey 3141 127 13 0.0404
Ralph Winkler 3089 88 6 0.0285
Penelope Cunningham 2729 7 1 0.0026
Patrick Dinkelacker 6001 19 4 0.0032
Deborah Gaines 8799 48 9 0.0055
Ronald Panioto 12970 32 3 0.0025
Mike Allen 6149 43 4 0.0070
Nadine Allen 7812 34 6 0.0044
Timothy Black 7954 41 6 0.0052
David Davis 7736 43 5 0.0056
Leslie Isaiah Gaines 5282 35 13 0.0066
Karla Grady 5253 6 0 0.0011
Deidra Hair 2532 5 0 0.0020
Dennis Helmick 7900 29 5 0.0037
Timothy Hogan 2308 13 2 0.0056
James Patrick Kenney 2798 6 1 0.0021
Joseph Luebbers 4698 25 8 0.0053
William Mallory 8277 38 9 0.0046
Melba Marsh 8219 34 7 0.0041
Beth Mattingly 2971 13 1 0.0044
Albert Mestemaker 4975 28 9 0.0056
Mark Painter 2239 7 3 0.0031
Jack Rosen 7790 41 13 0.0053
Mark Schweikert 5403 33 6 0.0061
David Stockdale 5371 22 4 0.0041
John A. West 2797 4 2 0.0014

5. Rank the judges within each court. State the criteria you used and provide a rationale for your choic
p(reversed | Court
Judge appealed) Rank Judge
Thomas Nurre 0.050 Common 1 Ronald Paniot
Robert Kraft 0.055 Common 2 Penelope Cun
Ralph Winkler 0.068 Common 3 Deborah Gain
Thomas Crush 0.084 Common 4 Patrick Dinkel
Fred Cartolano 0.088 Common 5
John O'Connor 0.093 Common 6
Ann Marie Tracey 0.102 Common 7
Arthur Ney Jr. 0.112 Common 8
Timothy Hogan 0.117 Common 9
Richard Niehaus 0.117 Common 10
Robert Ruehlman 0.124 Common 11
Norbert Nadel 0.153 Common 12
J. Howard Sundermann Jr. 0.167 Common 13
Patrick Dinkelacker 0.182 Common 14
William Morrissey 0.182 Common 15
William Mathews 0.198 Common 16

The rationale behind ranking the judges is: who has the least reversal of cases gven that it is appealed.
p(reversed) p(reversed | appealed) Court
0.0040 0.0876 Common
0.0030 0.0840 Common
0.0064 0.1818 Common
0.0036 0.1167 Common
0.0022 0.0551 Common
0.0080 0.1978 Common
0.0073 0.1818 Common
0.0068 0.1527 Common
0.0043 0.1120 Common
0.0048 0.1168 Common
0.0020 0.0496 Common
0.0040 0.0930 Common
0.0056 0.1241 Common
0.0105 0.1667 Common
0.0041 0.1024 Common
0.0019 0.0682 Common
0.0004 0.1429 Domestic
0.0007 0.2105 Domestic
0.0010 0.1875 Domestic
0.0002 0.0938 Domestic
0.0007 0.0930 Municipal
 0.0008 0.1765 Municipal
0.0008 0.1463 Municipal
0.0006 0.1163 Municipal
0.0025 0.3714 Municipal
0.0000 0.0000 Municipal
0.0000 0.0000 Municipal
0.0006 0.1724 Municipal
0.0009 0.1538 Municipal
0.0004 0.1667 Municipal
0.0017 0.3200 Municipal
0.0011 0.2368 Municipal
0.0009 0.2059 Municipal
0.0003 0.0769 Municipal
0.0018 0.3214 Municipal
0.0013 0.4286 Municipal
0.0017 0.3171 Municipal
0.0011 0.1818 Municipal
0.0007 0.1818 Municipal
0.0007 0.5000 Municipal

ed and provide a rationale for your choice

p(reversed | Court p(reversed Court
appealed) Rank Judge | appealed)
0.094 Domestic 1 Karla Grady 0.0000 Municipal
0.143 Domestic 2 Deidra Hair 0.0000 Municipal
0.188 Domestic 3 Beth Matting 0.0769 Municipal
0.211 Domestic 4 Mike Allen 0.0930 Municipal
David Davis 0.1163 Municipal
Timothy Bla 0.1463 Municipal
Timothy Hog 0.1538 Municipal
James Patric 0.1667 Municipal
Dennis Helm 0.1724 Municipal
Nadine Allen 0.1765 Municipal
Mark Schwei 0.1818 Municipal
David Stockd 0.1818 Municipal
Melba Marsh 0.2059 Municipal
William Mall 0.2368 Municipal
Jack Rosen 0.3171 Municipal
Joseph Luebb 0.3200 Municipal
Albert Mest 0.3214 Municipal
es gven that it is appealed. Leslie Isaiah 0.3714 Municipal
Mark Painter 0.4286 Municipal
John A. Wes 0.5000 Municipal
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