A statute providing that a fact or group of facts is prima facie evidence of another fact establishes a rebuttable presumption.
Cal. Evid. Code § 602
General
Applied in 22 court decisions — leading case 25 Cal. 4th 826 - Aguilar v. Atlantic Richfield Co. (2001)
Most recently applied in Welborne v. Ryman-Carroll Found. (April 2018)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
How often courts cite this section
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.