Tharpe v. Warden’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.3d 1342 · 2018
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
July 2022
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Gideon v. Wainwright · Wainwright v. Sykes · Teague v. Lane · Schriro Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Summerlin
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“black folks category in [his] book, should get the electric chair for what he did'; that '[s]ome of the jurors voted for death because they felt Tharpe should be an example to other blacks who kill blacks, but that wasn't [his] reason'; and that, '[a]fter studying the Bible, [he] ha[d] wondered if black people even have souls.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Tharpe v. Ford“repugnant comments ... rife with racial slurs ... and even an explicit statement that [his] decision to sentence Tharpe to death was[,] at leas[t] in part, based on race.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Tharpe v. Ford“view that 'there are two types of black people: 1. Black folks and 2. Niggers'; that Tharpe, 'who wasn't in the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Tharpe v. Ford
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.