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Cal. Gov. Code § 28020

Classification of Counties

Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 51 Cal. 3d 975 - People v. Ortiz (1990)

Most recently applied in 226 Cal. App. 4th 957 - Joshua People v. Super. Ct. (May 2014)

Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1204.

How often courts cite this section

19721980199020002010201410
citing decisions per year

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.

The population of the counties of this state is hereby ascertained and determined to be and is as follows:

1Los Angeles

7,032,075

2Orange

1,420,386

3San Diego

1,357,854

4Alameda

1,073,184

5Santa Clara

1,064,714

6San Francisco

715,674

7San Bernardino

684,072

8Sacramento

631,498

9Contra Costa

558,389

10San Mateo

556,234

11Riverside

459,074

12Fresno

413,053

13Ventura

376,430

14Kern

329,162

15San Joaquin

290,208

16Santa Barbara

264,324

17Monterey

250,071

18Marin

206,038

19Sonoma

204,885

20Stanislaus

194,506

21Tulare

188,322

22Solano

169,941

23Santa Cruz

123,790

24San Luis Obispo

105,690

25Merced

104,629

26Butte

101,969

27Humboldt

99,692

28Yolo

91,788

29Napa

79,140

30Shasta

77,640

31Placer

77,306

32Imperial

74,492

33Kings

64,610

34Mendocino

51,101

35Yuba

44,736

36El Dorado

43,833

37Sutter

41,935

38Madera

41,519

39Siskiyou

33,225

40Tehama

29,517

41Nevada

26,346

42Tuolumne

22,169

43Lake

19,548

44San Benito

18,226

45Glenn

17,521

46Inyo

15,571

47Lassen

14,960

48Del Norte

14,580

49Calaveras

13,585

50Colusa

12,430

51Amador

11,821

52Plumas

11,707

53Trinity

7,615

54Modoc

7,469

55Mariposa

6,015

56Mono

4,016

57Sierra

2,365

58Alpine

484

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.