Halpern v. Wheeldon’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Howard Cooperman Trudy Cooperman v. Matt David Wyoming Rivers & Trails (2000), Duncan v. Town of Jackson (1995)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 33 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 Allied-Signal, Inc. v. Wyoming State Board of Equalization · State Department of Revenue & Taxation v. Pacificorp · Brittain v. Booth · 170 Mich. App. 692 - Schmitz v. Cannonsburg Skiing Corp. · Berniger v. Meadow Green-Wildcat Corp.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Any person who takes part in any sport or recreational opportunity assumes the inherent risk of injury and all legal responsibility for damage, injury or death to himself or other persons or property that results from the inherent risks in that sport or recreational opportunity. (b) A provider of any sport or recreational opportunity is not required to eliminate, alter or control the inherent risks within the particular sport or recreational opportunity. (c) Actions based upon negligence of the provider not caused by an inherent risk of the sport or recreational opportunity shall be preserved pursuant to W.S. 1-1-109.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“any risk that is characteristic of or intrinsic to any sport or recreational opportunity and which cannot be reasonably eliminated, altered, or controlled.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, we must abide by the plain meaning of the statute. * * * Furthermore, it is a fundamental rule of statutory interpretation that all portions of an act must be read in pari materia, and every word, clause, and sentence must be construed so that no part is inoperative or superfluous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ja v. Cjh · Garton v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.