Tharp v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2004 · most notably Coleman v. Thompson (1991), O'Dell III v. Jd Netherland J S III O'Dell III (1996)
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Cousins v. Commonwealth
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Henceforth we will extend the time for filing a petition for a writ of error only if it is found that to deny the extension would abridge a constitutional right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coleman v. Thompson
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.