PullImageCommand.isImagePulled() calls
List<Image> images = client.listImagesCmd().withFilters(String.format("

", fromImage)).exec();

Syntax wise, it is correct, however, list image currently only accept one filter now, which is dangling (whose value is true or false).
See https://docs.docker.com/reference/commandline/cli/#filtering_1,
Also see here for the docker daemon implemenation:
https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/v1.1.0/server/server.go#L668

So the above call with fromImage as the filter simply doesn't do anything, and I have also Eclipse debug out below to prove this. The below debugger output is when it hits breakpoint inside of that function. Note that "fromImage" is "wzheng2310/foo", but the returned result contains only one entry " "tutum/hello-world:latest".

his PullImageCommand (id=9570)
fromImage "wzheng2310/foo" (id=9644)
registry "" (id=9645)
tag "1" (id=9646)
client DockerClientImpl (id=9577)
images ArrayList<E> (id=9578)
elementData Object[10] (id=9579)
[0] Image (id=9582)
created 1416605801
id "7e6d00854917cab52b56fb2f2fd6300b485462c6dacf42483215c341954dacaa" (id=9584)
parentId "6853da9a3f45429aec73c2da79057ddb84af2322f874eb6a51d17ad2a4ceba61" (id=9585)
repoTags String[1] (id=9586)
[0] "tutum/hello-world:latest" (id=9587)
hash -1796321746
hash32 0
value (id=9588)
size 0
virtualSize 255255458
modCount 1
size 1