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Cal. Evid. Code § 145

WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 16 Cal. 3d 663 - People v. Williams (1976)

Most recently applied in 61 Cal. 4th 62 - People v. Kopatz (April 2015)

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.

“The hearing” means the hearing at which a question under this code arises, and not some earlier or later hearing.

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