Meester v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.3d 855 · 1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2018
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Nichols v. Frank · Callanan v. Runyun · Lang v. Star Herald · Miller v. Bolger · William A. Youngerman 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The plaintiff] is essentially asking us to hold that the Department of Labor was wrong in directing her to accept this position. Such a holding would contravene FECA’s prohibition against judicial review of compensation decisions.... We will not allow [the plaintiff] to use the Rehabilitation Act to circumvent Congress’ intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] frustrated FECA claimant cannot secure judicial review of a FECA compensation decision by claiming that the Rehabilitation Act entitles her to [relief] ... when the claim is predicated upon the same illness or injury that gave rise to the Department of Labor's initial [FECA] decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he legislative history indicates that FECA was intended to compensate employees who suffer work-related injuries and immunize employers from actions in tort for those same injuries similar to private workers’ compensation statutes. A private employer’s compliance with its workers’ compensation obligations does not immunize it from Rehabilitation Act liability. Similarly, FECA’s exclusivity provision must be read as foreclosing an employee who elects to receive FECA benefits from also bringing an action against her employer under the Federal Tort Claims Act, Suits in Admiralty Act, Public Vessels Act, etc. Congress has not amended FECA to state otherwise, nor has it limited Rehabilitation Act claims....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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