unforeseeable causes
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 318 U.S. 120 - United States v. Brooks-Callaway Co. · 1943Most cited · 75 citing opinions
The purpose of the proviso to protect the contractor against the unexpected, and its grammatical sense both militate against holding that the listed events are always to be regarded as unforeseeable, no matter what the attendant circumstances are. Rather, the adjective 'unforeseeable' must modify each event set out in the 'including' phrase.
How often courts cite the case defining “unforeseeable causes”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “unforeseeable causes” — 75 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.