United States v. Horn’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.3d 882 · 2008
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Anderson (2015), United States v. Rodriguez (2009)
14 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 18 U.S.C. § 2241 (Amber Hagerman Child Protection Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 2244
Relies on United States v. Wagner · United States v. Espino · United States v. Gabe · United States of America v. Leo Lecompte · United States v. Demarrias
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“child sexual abuse committed twenty years before trial admissible). Keys argues that, regardless of relevance, the district court abused its Rule 403 discretion because the probative value of H.L.'s testimony was substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice. However, like most relevant Rule 413 evidence, H.L.'s testimony is prejudicial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the same reason it is probative -- it tends to prove [Keys's] propensity to molest young children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the evidence must have been discovered after the trial; (2) the failure to discover must not be attributable to a lack of due diligence on the part of the movant; (3) the evidence must not be merely cumulative or impeaching; (4) the evidence must be material; and (5) the evidence must be likely to produce an acquittal if a new trial is granted.”
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.