Sykas v. Kearns

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “moving party has the burden of establishing that there exist no disputed issues both in this Court and before the trial court”
• findings under V.R.C.P. 56 are not necessary but are helpful to appellate review
• function of summary judgment is to avoid a useless trial
• function of summary judgment is to avoid a useless trial
• noting the purpose of summary judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Fitzgerald v. Congleton
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-10-19· cited 76×
• Gore v. Green Mountain Lakes, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1981-09-23· cited 58×
• Alpstetten Ass'n, Inc. v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1979-10-15· cited 50×
• Smith v. Day
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-11-20· cited 39×
• Chittenden Trust Co. v. Maryanski
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-04-08· cited 32×
• Miller v. Merchants Bank
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-04-08· cited 32×
• Berlin Development Associates v. Department of Social Welfare
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1982-10-18· cited 26×
• Braun v. Humiston
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1981-11-03· cited 25×
• Whitcomb v. Dancer
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1982-02-02· cited 22×
• Estate of George v. Vermont League of Cities & Towns
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2010-01-14· cited 21×
• Slansky v. Slansky
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-09-30· cited 19×
• State v. Heritage Realty
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1979-09-13· cited 13×
• In re Lowry
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2013-10-04· cited 6×
• Department of Social Welfare v. Berlin Development Associates
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-02-05· cited 5×
• Creaser v. Bixby
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-09-08· cited 5×
• Middlebury American Legion Post No. 27 v. Peck
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1981-06-02· cited 4×
• Campbell v. Dupont
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-06-10· cited 4×
• Howard Bank v. Gonzalez
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1981-09-01· cited 2×
• Stamato v. Quazzo
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-11-05· cited 1×
• Robinson v. Hodgdon Bros., Inc.
  Vermont Superior Court· 2003-11-17

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Union School District No. 20 v. Lench
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1976-09-17· cited 23×
• Fonda v. Fay
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1973-06-05· cited 14×
• Tierney v. Tierney
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1972-12-05· cited 10×
• Central Vermont Public Service Corp. v. Town of Springfield
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1977-09-12· cited 9×
• Sykas v. Kearns
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1976-10-18· cited 1×

Other cases named Sykas v. Kearns

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Sykas v. Kearns
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1976-10-18· cited 1×