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Cal. Evid. Code § 160

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Applied in 27 court decisions — leading case 37 Cal. 3d 644 - Fisher v. City of Berkeley (1984)

Most recently applied in 5 Cal. App. 5th 246 - People v. Mary H. (November 2016)

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.

“Law” includes constitutional, statutory, and decisional law.

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