A statement within the scope of an exception to the hearsay rule is not inadmissible on the ground that the evidence of such statement is hearsay evidence if such hearsay evidence consists of one or more statements each of which meets the requirements of an exception to the hearsay rule.
Cal. Evid. Code § 1201
General Provisions
Applied in 32 court decisions — leading case 16 Cal. 4th 153 - People v. Williams (1997)
Most recently applied in 7 Cal. 5th 14 - People v. Sanchez (April 2019)
Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 650.
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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.
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