Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
287 federal appellate · 115 district · 426 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,115 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980), Hudgens v. National Labor Relations Board (1976)
287 federal appellate · 115 district · 426 state decisions — followed in 39 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
reviewedTanner v. Lloyd Corp. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Schneider v. State · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Lovell v. City of Griffin · Marsh v. State of Alabama
Cited together with Hudgens v. National Labor Relations Board · Marsh v. State of Alabama · Amalgamated Food Employees Union Local 590 v. Logan Valley Plaza, Inc. · PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins · Central Hardware Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 1,115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lose its private character merely because the public is generally invited to use it for designated purposes.”
62 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to exercise their First Amendment rights on the premises in a manner and for a purpose generally consonant with the use to which the property is actually put.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the functional equivalent of a public business district”
4 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.