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Cal. Evid. Code § 1252

Statements of Mental or Physical State

Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland (1969)

Most recently applied in 11 Cal. 5th 881 - People v. Dworak (July 2021)

Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

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.

Evidence of a statement is inadmissible under this article if the statement was made under circumstances such as to indicate its lack of trustworthiness.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.