Wang Laboratories, Inc. v. Applied Computer Sciences, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
958 F.2d 355 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Lashawn A. v. Barry (1996), Data General Corp. v. Johnson (1996)
17 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · Davis v. Wakelee · Bonanno v. United States · Scarano v. Central R. Co. of New Jersey
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can find the transfer decision plausible”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not have the power ... to decide ... that a draft settlement agreement was binding when the parties did not agree on it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no reasonable fact-finder could conclude that the parties intended that the agreement would be binding without execution of the documents by both parties. Since Wang and ACS never in fact reached agreement on the terms and conditions of a settlement and never executed the documents, the district court erred in enforcing the draft as an agreement and thus granting Wang summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.