Central Hardware Co. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
155 federal appellate · 34 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 418 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. (1982), PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980)
155 federal appellate · 34 district · 94 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCentral Hardware Company, Petitioner v. National Labor Relations Board (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Dandridge v. Williams · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · Thomas v. Collins · Marsh v. State of Alabama
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 418 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and to seek a proper accommodation between the two.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We hold ... that the owner of private commercial premises may forbid handbilling by ‘nonemployee’ union organizers engaged in nonorganizational, informational activity directed at the general public, unless the union can show that it is entitled to trespass on the owner’s private property because the inaccessibility to the general public to which the handbilling is directed ‘makes ineffective the reasonable attempts by nonemployees to communicate with [the public] through the usual channels.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the functional equivalent of a municipality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.