Walden v. Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably General Universal Systems, Inc. v. Lee (2004), Aguiar v. Segal (2005)
2 federal appellate · 40 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 127th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1724
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh v. CBI Industries, Inc. · Johnson & Higgins of Texas, Inc. v. Kenneco Energy, Inc. · Stewart v. Basey · Roark v. STALLWORTH OIL AND GAS, INC
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n a case involving a contract to deliver stock, the proper measure of damages for breach of that contract is the same as for other contracts: the difference between the price contracted to be paid and the value of the article at the time when it should have been delivered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Of course, the trial court’s authority in a pretrial conference is limited to deciding legal, not factual, issues.”); but see Martin v. Dosohs I, Ltd., 2 S.W.3d 350, 355 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 1999, pet. denied) (noting dismissal at pretrial conference is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence is considered in the light most favorable to the nonmovant, crediting evidence a reasonable jury could credit and disregarding contrary evidence and inferences unless a reasonable jury could not.”
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.