Plummer v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding, in non-FELA context, that exposure to tuberculosis bacilli constituted physical impact under both the zone of danger and physical impact tests
• exposure to disease constitutes a physical impact because the exposure guards against feigned emotional distress claims
• exposure to disease constitutes a physical impact because the exposure guards against feigned emotional distress claims
• inhalation of minute tubercle bacilli

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Matthews v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2006-07-27· cited 259×
• Cathcart v. Keene Industrial Insulation
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-13· cited 248×
• Unnamed case
  Tenth Circuit· 2005-02-03· cited 202×
• McCormick v. Stalder
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-02-19· cited 200×
• Leonhard v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1980-08-28· cited 171×
• Sidney A. Clark v. Donald Taylor
  First Circuit· 1983-06-17· cited 124×
• Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Cox
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-12-31· cited 115×
• James E. Gottshall v. Consolidated Rail Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1995-06-06· cited 78×
• Berardi v. Johns-Manville Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-10-05· cited 63×
• Mergenthaler v. Asbestos Corp. of America
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-07-19· cited 53×
• Day v. NLO
  S.D. Ohio· 1994-03-22· cited 43×
• Jerald E. Bloom v. Consolidated Rail Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1994-12-12· cited 35×
• Nutt v. A.C. & S., Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1983-08-23· cited 30×
• Merry v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 1988-03-14· cited 27×
• Villari v. Terminix International, Inc.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1987-06-24· cited 25×
• Trentadue v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 2005-02-03· cited 18×
• Kutner v. Eastern Airlines, Inc.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1981-05-20· cited 13×
• Purjet ex rel. Purjet v. Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp.
  Virgin Islands· 1986-01-08· cited 13×
• Marriott v. Sedco Forex International Resources, Ltd.
  D. Massachusetts· 1993-07-22· cited 11×
• Sypert v. United States
  District of Columbia· 1983-03-28· cited 8×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Muniz
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-17· cited 787×
• Niederman v. Brodsky
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 260×
• PAPIEVES Et Ux. v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 254×
• St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad v. Southern Express Co.
  Supreme Court· 1883-01-29· cited 165×
• Bosley v. Andrews
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-06-04· cited 67×
• Potere v. Philadelphia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-03-14· cited 54×
• Knaub v. Gotwalt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-06-24· cited 48×
• Richerson v. Jones
  Third Circuit· 1977-03-07· cited 33×
• ZELINSKY Et Ux. v. Chimics
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-11-16· cited 27×
• Scarf v. Koltoff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-09-27· cited 15×
• Marcus v. Frankford Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 13×
• Melvin Kahle, Administrator of the Estate of Adella Curry v. Glosser Brothers, Inc
  Third Circuit· 1972-06-16· cited 9×
• Conway v. Spitz
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1975-11-20· cited 8×