Winet v. Price

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that when contract is ambiguous, court may properly admit parol evidence to construe the written agreement
• disregarding “testimony as to what [the witness] subjectively understood and intended the release to encompass”
• “It is the outward expression of the agreement, rather than a party’s unexpressed intention, which the court will enforce.”
• “parol evidence is admissible only to prove a meaning to which the language is ‘reasonably susceptible,’ not to flatly contradict the express terms of the agreement.”
• “It is the outward expression 11 of the agreement, rather than a party’s unexpressed intention, which the court will 12 enforce.”
• “It is the outward expression of the agreement, rather than a party’s unexpressed intention, which the court will enforce.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Badie v. Bank of America
  California Court of Appeal· 1998-11-03· cited 666×
• Benach v. County of Los Angeles
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-03-15· cited 548×
• Thompson v. Asimos
  California Court of Appeal· 2016-12-15· cited 279×
• Founding Members of Newport Beach Country Club v. Newport Beach Country Club, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2003-06-12· cited 207×
• ASP Properties Group, L.P. v. Fard, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2005-10-05· cited 148×
• Wolf v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 2004-02-19· cited 142×
• Fassberg Construction Co. v. Housing Authority
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-05-24· cited 140×
• Villacres v. Abm Industries Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2010-10-22· cited 138×
• Lenk v. Total-Western, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2001-06-04· cited 132×
• Alexander v. Codemasters Group Limited
  California Court of Appeal· 2002-12-13· cited 121×
• Cotran v. Rollins Hudig Hall International, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 1998-01-05· cited 112×
• Brown v. Grimes
  California Court of Appeal· 2011-01-27· cited 108×
• United States of America, Ex Rel., and Michael E. Green v. Northrop Corporation Norm Bussard
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-07-12· cited 104×
• Scheenstra v. California Dairies, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2013-01-30· cited 88×
• WYDA Associates v. Merner
  California Court of Appeal· 1996-02-05· cited 79×
• Titan Corp. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1994-02-10· cited 78×
• Southern California Edison Co. v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1995-08-09· cited 77×
• Smith v. Adventist Health System/West
  California Court of Appeal· 2010-03-04· cited 76×
• American Alternative Insurance v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 2006-01-25· cited 73×
• Quantification Settlement Agreement Cases
  California Court of Appeal· 2011-12-07· cited 73×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Parsons v. Bristol Development Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1965-06-17· cited 918×
• Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. G. W. Thomas Drayage & Rigging Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1968-07-11· cited 846×
• Brant v. California Dairies, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 1935-07-30· cited 139×
• Stratton v. First National Life Insurance
  California Court of Appeal· 1989-05-23· cited 114×
• Casey v. Proctor
  California Supreme Court· 1963-02-14· cited 110×
• Madison v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1988-08-04· cited 84×
• Okun v. Morton
  California Court of Appeal· 1988-08-11· cited 58×
• Blumenfeld v. R. H. MacY & Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-04-18· cited 43×
• Edwards v. Comstock Insurance Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1988-11-10· cited 31×
• Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Berry
  California Court of Appeal· 1989-07-28· cited 31×
• Asare v. Hartford Fire Insurance
  California Court of Appeal· 1991-12-13· cited 31×
• Crow v. PEG Construction Co., Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 1957-12-19· cited 29×
• Bodle v. Bodle
  California Court of Appeal· 1978-01-11· cited 22×
• Vega v. Western Employers Insurance Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1985-07-31· cited 18×
• Stevenson v. Oceanic Bank
  California Court of Appeal· 1990-08-31· cited 13×
• Kostick v. Swain
  California Court of Appeal· 1953-02-18· cited 8×