436 So. 2d 75 - Schoen v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 633 F. Supp. 40 - Luby v. Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. (1986), Circle K Convenience Stores, Inc. v. Ferguson (1990)
37 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 280 So. 2d 431 - Hoffman v. Jones · Mize v. State · Inanc v. Schreckengost · Wilkerson v. State · Wood v. Camp
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a difference in floor levels does not of itself constitute failure to use due care for the safety of a person invited to the premises and there is no duty to issue warning of such condition when it is obvious and not inherently dangerous.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]hat type of construction is common and no one entering a home can assume that the floors of all rooms in the same story have the same level, blindly travel on the presumption, disregard his own safety, stumble, fall, and recover.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]ecause a difference in floor levels is not an inherently dangerous condition, even in dim lighting, a homeowner has no duty to warn of such condition as a matter of law.”
1 later decision 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.