121 Cal. App. 746 - Hansen v. D'Artenay’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
August 1942
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Woodard v. Glenwood Lumber Co. · W. F. Boardman Co. v. Petch · Stein v. Archibald · 52 Cal. App. 1 - Peterson v. Wagner · D. Ghirardelli & Co. v. Students' Express & Transfer Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Circumstances surrounding the parties executing a contract, and well known to them at the time, are often of great assistance in interpreting their intention where the express terms of the contract are not clear and where a dispute later arises. ‘A court is not only to take a contract by all its corners, but is to be placed in the seats of the parties when it was made. In other words, a contract is to be construed in the light and with the knowledge of surrounding circumstances. ’ (6 Cal. Jur. 294; Civ. Code, sec. 1647; Code Civ. Proc., sec. 1860; Stein v. Archibald, 151 Cal. 220 [90 Pac . 536] ; Peterson v. Wagner, 52 Cal. App. 1 [ 198 Pac. 25 ].)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neilsen v. Richter
How this case has been treated — in progress
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