Interstate General Government Contractors, Inc. v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
980 F.2d 1433 · 1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Grumman Data Systems Corp. v. Dalton (1996), Community Heating & Plumbing Co. v. Kelso (1993)
4 federal appellate ·
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 Fortec Constructors v. United States · Beacon Construction Co. of Massachusetts v. United States · Beacon Construction Co. of Massachusetts v. United States · Newsom v. United States · Newsom v. United States
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n view of the Board's considerable experience and expertise in interpreting government contracts, its interpretation is given careful consideration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is well established that if a drawing or specification is ambiguous and the contractor follows an interpretation that is reasonable, this interpretation will prevail over one advanced by the Government, even though the Government’s interpretation may be a more reasonable one since the Government drafted the contract. The Government as drafter of the contract had a duty to shoulder the major task of seeing within a zone of reason that words of the contract correctly and concisely communicate the proper notions and intentions of parties, and the Government must bear the burden of a failure to carry that responsibility. The Government drafted this contract and as a result, any ambiguities that were created should be strictly construed against the Government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“raises the duty of inquiry, regardless of the reasonableness of the contractor's interpretation.”
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.