A presumption affecting the burden of producing evidence is a presumption established to implement no public policy other than to facilitate the determination of the particular action in which the presumption is applied.
Cal. Evid. Code § 603
General
Applied in 32 court decisions — leading case 37 Cal. 3d 644 - Fisher v. City of Berkeley (1984)
Most recently applied in 221 Cal. Rptr. 3d 119 - Alvarez v. Seaside Transp. Servs. LLC (July 2017)
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.