Pullar v. Huelle’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2020
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Ass'n v. State · Eklund v. PRI Environmental, Inc. · Snake River Brewing Co. v. Town of Jackson · Hoblyn v. Johnson · Flygare v. Brundage
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is appropriate in a declaratory judgment action so long as there are no genuine issues of material fact. Snake River Brewing Co., Inc. v. Town of Jackson, 2002 WY 11, ¶4 , 39 P.3d 397, 402 (Wyo.2002). We recently repeated our standard for review of summary judgments rendered under W.R.C.P. 56: When a motion for summary judgment is before this court, assuming there is a complete record, we have exactly the same duty and materials as did the district court and must follow the same standards. Hoblyn v. Johnson, 2002 WY 152, ¶11 , 55 P.3d 1219, ¶11 (Wyo.2002). The propriety of granting summary judgment depends upon the correctness of a court's dual findings that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and the prevailing party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Id. This court looks at the record from the viewpoint most favorable to the party opposing the motion, giving to him all the favorable inferences which may be drawn from the facts contained in affidavits, depositions, and other materials appearing in the record. Id. The party moving for summary judgment bears the initial burden of estab lishing a prima facie case for a summary judgment. If the movant carries this burden, the party opposing the summary judgment must come forward with specific facts to demonstrate that a genuine issue of material fact does exist. Eklund v. PRI Environmental, Inc., 2001 WY 55, 110 , 25 P.3d 511, 110 (Wyo.2001). A material fact has been defined as a fact upon”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is some question whether a declaratory judgment action is an appropriate method to seek damages for breach of contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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