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ORS 138.040

Known as the Post-Conviction Hearing Act

The act spans §§ 138–138 (119 sections).

Applied in 29 court decisions — leading case State v. McAnulty (2014)

Most recently applied in 329 Or. App. 588 - State v. Johnson (December 2023)

How often courts cite this section

20132020202390
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.

[Amended by 1959 c.558 §36; 1963 c.207 §1; 1969 c.198 §62; 1971 c.565 §19; 1977 c.372 §13; 1977 c.752 §1; 1985 c.348 §1; 1989 c.849 §4; 2001 c.870 §6; repealed by 2017 c.529 §26]

Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.