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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Wyoming Supreme Court / Joined 1985 / Served to 1993

Walter C. Urbigkit

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Walter C. Urbigkit was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1927 · age 99
Tenure: 1985–1993 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Urbigkit authored 236 published opinions for the court (1986–1993), plus 183 dissents and 108 concurrences. Most cited: Parker Land & Cattle Co. v. Wyoming Game & Fish Commission (256 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 521 of these were attributed to Urbigkit by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1993	Parker Land & Cattle Co. v. Wyoming Game & Fish Commission· Dissent†	845 P.2d 1040	256
1986	Frias v. State· Concurrence†	722 P.2d 135	163
1986	Cordova v. Gosar†	719 P.2d 625	159
1990	Billis v. State· Dissent†	800 P.2d 401	142
1987	Scadden v. State†	732 P.2d 1036	140
1991	Allied-Signal, Inc. v. Wyoming State Board of Equalization· Concurrence†	813 P.2d 214	119
1993	Saldana v. State· Dissent†	846 P.2d 604	104
1986	England v. Simmons· Dissent†	728 P.2d 1137	92
1986	Crozier v. State†	723 P.2d 42	92
1990	McCullough v. Golden Rule Insurance Co.†	789 P.2d 855	90
1987	Mostert v. CBL & Associates· Concurrence†	741 P.2d 1090	90
1993	Vanasse v. Ramsay· Concurrence†	847 P.2d 993	87
1987	Brown v. State· Dissent†	736 P.2d 1110	85
1991	Engberg v. Meyer· Concurrence†	820 P.2d 70	84
1988	Cutbirth v. State· Dissent†	751 P.2d 1257	84

Showing the 15 most-cited of 527 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Wyoming Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Walter C. Urbigkit on?: Walter C. Urbigkit was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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7 years on the Wyoming Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).