SAN FRANCISCO — Some Ninth Circuit judges are more opinionated than others.

Over a three-year stretch, judges like Milan Smith and Ronald Gould published almost three times as many majority opinions as their more circumspect colleagues, a Recorder review showed. Judges regarded as centrist or moderately liberal tended to produce the most opinions, while conservatives — who are outnumbered on the court — dissented more frequently.

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