“Proceeding” means any action, hearing, investigation, inquest, or inquiry (whether conducted by a court, administrative agency, hearing officer, arbitrator, legislative body, or any other person authorized by law) in which, pursuant to law, testimony can be compelled to be given.
Cal. Evid. Code § 901
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Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case 53 Cal. 3d 522 - People v. Wharton (1991)
Most recently applied in 204 Cal. Rptr. 3d 595 - Gerner v. Superior Court of L.A. Cnty. (July 2016)
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.
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