73 Ill. App. 3d 21 - People v. Mikel’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 94 Ill. 2d 245 - People v. Ruiz (1982), 118 Ill. App. 3d 882 - People v. Columbo (1983)
57 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 60 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Williams · 47 Ill. 2d 300 - The PEOPLE v. Holiday · 54 Ill. 2d 143 - People v. Jackson · 42 Ill. 2d 159 - The PEOPLE v. Walcher · 56 Ill. App. 3d 92 - People v. Addison
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the instant case, the first aggravated assault and the murder occurred just minutes and less than two city blocks apart. The time and distance between the murder and the second aggravated assault was several minutes and a few miles. The evidence is strong that the alleged actions were part of a shooting spree engaged in by defendant [Mikel] and Seaton. Those actions, thus, were part of the same general transaction or scheme and show a common motive, design and method of operation. Substantially the same evidence could have been presented by the State at the trial of each offense. For these reasons, the denial of the defendant’s motion for severance was not an abuse of discretion.” People v. Mikel (1979), 73 Ill. App. 3d 21, 27-28 , 391 N.E.2d 550 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Two or more offenses may be charged in the same indictment, information or complaint in a separate count for each offense if the offenses charged, whether felonies or misdemeanors or both, are based on the same act or on 2 or more acts which are part of the same comprehensive transaction.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. Ill — 4(a).”
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.