Expert Witnesses Generally
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 1 Cal. 4th 324 - People v. Price (1991)
Most recently applied in 23 Cal. 4th 529 - People v. Coddington (September 2000)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
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.
(a) The fact of the appointment of an expert witness by the court may be revealed to the trier of fact.
(b) The compensation and expenses paid or to be paid to an expert witness by the party calling him is a proper subject of inquiry by any adverse party as relevant to the credibility of the witness and the weight of his testimony.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.