People v. Hoecher’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Romero v. People (2007), Beecroft v. People (1994)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Schubert v. People · People Ex Rel. VanMeveren v. DIST. CT., ETC. · Massey v. People · Wilson v. People
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.
“[a] person who is confined for an offense prior to the imposition of a sentence for said offense is entitled to credit against the term of his or her sentence for the entire period of such confinement.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an offender serving out a community correctional sentence on nonresidential status is free to function in the community in a manner unencumbered by most of the constraints associated with confinement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An offender sentenced to a community correctional facility is confined in a very real sense during the period of time in which the offender remains on residential status. Even if released for work or other rehabilitation activity, such offender would be substantially restricted in his freedom of movement and range of activity and would be duty-bound to return to the community correctional facility each day upon completion of the limited-release program_ A court about to resentence such offender for violating the conditions of the community correctional placement, therefore, should credit the offender for the time served as a resident of a community correctional facility-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Widhalm
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.