As used in this article, “proffered evidence” means evidence, the admissibility or inadmissibility of which is dependent upon the existence or nonexistence of a preliminary fact.
Cal. Evid. Code § 401
Preliminary Determinations on Admissibility of Evidence
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 10 Cal. App. 4th 57 - People v. Pizarro (1992)
Most recently applied in 110 Cal. App. 4th 530 - People v. Pizarro (July 2003)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
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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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.