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ORS 138.050

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 State v. Cortes (November 2025)

How often courts cite this section

201320202025110
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 1969 c.198 §63; 1973 c.836 §275a; 1975 c.611 §23; 1977 c.372 §14; 1985 c.342 §20; 1985 c.348 §2; 1989 c.849 §5; 1995 c.658 §78; 1999 c.134 §3; 1999 c.788 §47; 2001 c.644 §1; repealed by 2017 c.529 §26]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.