Benjamin Foster Co. v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• \The fact that an executed written contract contains within itself difficulties of construction about which the parties disagree does not enable a party to contend that the minds never met.\
• the Court refused to substitute its judgment for that of the engineer’s because the parties, by contract, entrusted such decisions to the engineer
• “The fact that an executed written contract contains within itself difficulties of construction about which the parties disagree does not enable a party to contend that the minds never met.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• J. A. Sullivan Corp. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-06-25· cited 207×
• Northern Heel Corp. v. Compo Industries, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1988-06-30· cited 80×
• Terminal Construction Corp. v. Bergen County Hackensack River Sanitary Sewer District Authority
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1955-04-25· cited 75×
• Marrapese v. Rhode Island
  D. Rhode Island· 1980-10-10· cited 71×
• Bignold v. King County
  Washington Supreme Court· 1965-03-04· cited 64×
• New England Gas & Electric Ass'n v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1953-12-15· cited 59×
• Barnum v. Fay
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-09-13· cited 42×
• Alpert v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-04-27· cited 29×
• McGrath v. Electrical Construction Co.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1961-09-06· cited 28×
• M. L. Shalloo, Inc. v. Ricciardi & Sons Construction, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-03-08· cited 27×
• D. Federico Co., Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-01-28· cited 19×
• Bucciero v. Drinkwater
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-05-19· cited 17×
• Chas. T. Main, Inc. v. Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1964-03-04· cited 17×
• Wes-Julian Construction Corp. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-01-10· cited 15×
• Terminal Const. Corp. v. Bergen, Etc., Authority
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1954-05-12· cited 15×
• R. Zoppo Co. Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-12-12· cited 15×
• H. H. Hawkins & Sons Co. v. Robie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1958-11-07· cited 14×
• G. L. Rugo & Sons, Inc. v. Town of Lexington
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-04-02· cited 14×
• Fred C. McClean Heating Supplies, Inc. v. Jefferson Construction Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-06-08· cited 13×
• Salem Glass Co. v. Joseph Rugo, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-06-29· cited 12×

Cites

47 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hollerbach v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1914-04-06· cited 260×
• Martinsburg & Potomac Railroad v. March
  Supreme Court· 1885-05-04· cited 192×
• Christie v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1915-04-12· cited 146×
• United States v. Atlantic Dredging Co.
  Supreme Court· 1920-04-26· cited 140×
• Goltra v. Weeks
  Supreme Court· 1926-06-07· cited 108×
• Charles I. Hosmer, Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-03-06· cited 102×
• Swinton v. Whitinsville Savings Bank
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-06-22· cited 89×
• Morse v. City of Boston
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1925-09-18· cited 77×
• United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. English Construction Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-04-25· cited 70×
• Long v. Inhabitants of Athol
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1907-11-26· cited 68×
• Palmer v. Clark
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-03-15· cited 65×
• Handy v. Bliss
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1910-02-02· cited 57×
• United States v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1921-04-11· cited 54×
• Wood v. Fort Wayne
  Supreme Court· 1886-12-06· cited 48×
• Hebert v. Dewey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1906-04-07· cited 42×
• Vickery v. Ritchie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1909-05-22· cited 42×
• Safford v. Grout
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1876-03-01· cited 40×
• MacArthur Brothers Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1922-02-27· cited 35×
• Freund v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1922-11-13· cited 33×
• Norcross v. Wyman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1904-11-22· cited 33×