An action shall be brought to trial within five years after the action is commenced against the defendant.
Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 583.310
Mandatory Time for Bringing Action to Trial or New Trial
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Gulf Coast Asphalt Co. v. Lloyd (2015)
Most recently applied in Cobb v. City of Stockton (In re City of Stockton) (December 2018)
Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1705, Sec. 5.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.