Applied in 56 court decisions — leading case State v. Hansen (1987)
Most recently applied in 338 Or. App. 666 - State v. Cinencio-Gonzalez (March 2025)
1971 c.743 §112; 2017 c.318 §3
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.
(1) A person commits the crime of sodomy in the third degree if the person engages in oral or anal sexual intercourse with another person under 16 years of age or causes that person to engage in oral or anal sexual intercourse.
(2) Sodomy in the third degree is a Class C felony.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.