People v. Mintz

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that appellant's death during a pending appeal \requires that the judgement of conviction be vacated\
• holding the Appellate Division correctly dismissed the appeal of a defendant who died pending appeal because “the entire criminal prosecution [] abate[s] by reason of [defendant’s] death”
• criminal case abates upon defendant’s death while on appeal even if death occurs following conviction
• “[S]ince [the appeal] cannot be heard, it can never be determined whether the judgment of conviction would stand, and this requires that the judgment of conviction be vacated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

37 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Eichner v. Dillon
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-03-31· cited 240×
• People v. Matteson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1989-12-19· cited 119×
• Nastasi v. Nastasi
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2005-11-14· cited 58×
• State v. Carlin
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2011-03-25· cited 35×
• People v. Ortiz
  New York Court of Appeals· 1990-09-19· cited 22×
• People v. Darden
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-02-19· cited 12×
• People v. Ekinici
  New York Supreme Court· 2002-03-14· cited 8×
• People v. Parker
  New York Court of Appeals· 1988-03-31· cited 7×
• People v. Pacheco
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-01-14· cited 6×
• Kirschenbaum v. Nassau County District Attorney (In Re Vitta)
  E.D. New York· 2009-07-23· cited 4×
• Fitzgerald v. Clarke
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 2001-01-30· cited 4×
• People v. Cutrone
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-12-02· cited 4×
• People v. McMahon
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-06-12· cited 4×
• In re S. B.
  NYC Family Court· 1995-06-16· cited 4×
• MAJORS v. STATE
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2020-05-21· cited 3×
• People v. Coker
  New York Court of Appeals· 1988-12-15· cited 3×
• People v. Jackson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1985-12-26· cited 2×
• People v. Grana
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2006-09-14· cited 2×
• People v. Robinson
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1975-09-11· cited 2×
• People v. Fea
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-03-27· cited 1×