261 So. 2d 146 - Post v. Lunney’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Wood v. Camp (1973), 380 So. 2d 1192 - Pittman v. Volusia County (1980)
1 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
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 Hecht Co. v. Jacobsen · St. Johns County v. Murphy · Cowart v. Meeks · 91 So. 2d 644 - City of Boca Raton v. Mattef · Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Cogswell
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) An invitee is either a public invitee or a business visitor. (2) A public invitee is a person who is invited to enter or remain on land as a member of the public for a purpose for which the land is held open to the public. (3) A business visitor is a person who is invited to enter or remain on land for a purpose directly or indirectly connected with business dealing with the possessor of land.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“who enters the premises of another without license, invitation, or other right, and intrudes for some definite purpose of his own, or at his convenience, or merely as an idler with no apparent purpose, other than perhaps to satisfy his curiosity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“he must keep his property reasonably safe and protect the visitor from dangers of which he is, or should be aware.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.