A presumption is either conclusive or rebuttable. Every rebuttable presumption is either (a) a presumption affecting the burden of producing evidence or (b) a presumption affecting the burden of proof.
Cal. Evid. Code § 601
General
Applied in 33 court decisions — leading case 1 Cal. 3d 351 - Conti v. Board of Civil Service Commissioners (1969)
Most recently applied in 221 Cal. Rptr. 3d 119 - Alvarez v. Seaside Transp. Servs. LLC (July 2017)
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.