Sharon Lee Wright v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the alleged injury from the surgery was not an expected consequence of the employee’s secretarial position
• “negligent application and use of a respirator is not an expected consequence of being within the special zone of danger which surrounds secretarial positions at Veterans Administration hospitals”
• “A substantial question of FECA coverage is generally present where the Secretary has undertaken an ‘action’ to award or deny FECA benefits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Mathirampuzha v. Potter
  Second Circuit· 2008-11-03· cited 340×
• Spinelli, Gianpaola v. Goss, Porter
  D.C. Circuit· 2006-05-05· cited 155×
• Scott A. Taber v. Robert S. Maine, and United States of America
  Second Circuit· 1995-10-05· cited 63×
• Max Leroy McDaniel v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1992-07-23· cited 38×
• Kimzey v. Interpace Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1985-02-07· cited 31×
• Laureano Pérez v. Soto
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1996-06-14· cited 26×
• Robert E. Votteler, Jr. v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1990-05-17· cited 22×
• Ramiro Vilanova v. United States of America
  First Circuit· 1988-06-30· cited 19×
• Betty D. McCall v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-04-27· cited 19×
• Robinson v. KFC National Management Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-06-09· cited 18×
• Saltsman v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-01-09· cited 17×
• Alicia M. Grijalva and Amanda Erica Grijalva v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-01-29· cited 16×
• Donna H. Chauncey Wilder v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-05-23· cited 14×
• Schmid, Jr., Christian C. v. The United States of America
  Third Circuit· 1987-08-19· cited 13×
• Scott v. Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1996-12-13· cited 10×
• Ritchie v. United States
  N.D. California· 2002-07-01· cited 10×
• Scott A. Taber v. Robert S. Maine, and United States of America
  Second Circuit· 1995-01-05· cited 9×
• Roach v. M/V Aqua Grace
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-10-26· cited 8×
• Quinn v. DiPietro
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1994-05-31· cited 5×
• Elman v. United States
  Third Circuit· 1999-04-27· cited 4×

Cites

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

• New York State Department of Social Services v. Dublino
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 558×
• O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1951-02-26· cited 458×
• United States v. Demko
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-05· cited 195×
• Duprey v. Shane
  California Supreme Court· 1952-10-24· cited 149×
• Guy v. Arthur H. Thomas Co.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1978-07-19· cited 63×
• John J. Joyce v. United States
  Third Circuit· 1973-02-16· cited 61×
• Andy Bailey and Barbara Bailey v. United States, Through the Department of the Army
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-12-08· cited 54×
• Harry H. Wallace and Elizabeth Snyder Wallace v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1982-02-05· cited 49×
• Ashok K. Avasthi v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-12-27· cited 48×
• Reynold Floyd Reep v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-07-13· cited 45×
• John A. Concordia v. The United States Postal Service, an Executive Sub-Division of the United States of America
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-10-03· cited 37×
• Panagos v. North Detroit General Hospital
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1971-08-24· cited 31×
• Marcus F. Gill v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-02-17· cited 26×
• United States v. Francis Browning
  Tenth Circuit· 1966-05-11· cited 25×
• United States v. Elizabeth J. Udy, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children Lori Kay Udy, Jo Ann Udy, Verlene R. Udy and Delpha L. Udy
  Tenth Circuit· 1967-08-03· cited 25×
• Dishman v. United States
  D. Maryland· 1950-10-20· cited 22×
• Fletcher v. Harafajee
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1980-10-06· cited 18×
• Jean Martin v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1977-12-22· cited 17×
• Berry v. United States
  D. Oregon· 1957-10-11· cited 11×
• Mohr v. United States
  N.D. California· 1960-03-16· cited 9×