Known as the Oregon Evidence Code
The act spans §§ 40–40 (98 sections).
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case State v. Shaw (2005)
Most recently applied in State v. Nolen (May 2022)
1981 c.892 §21
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) Evidence of the habit of a person or of the routine practice of an organization, whether corroborated or not and regardless of the presence of eyewitnesses, is relevant to prove that the conduct of the person or organization on a particular occasion was in conformity with the habit or routine practice.
(2) As used in this section, “habit” means a person’s regular practice of meeting a particular kind of situation with a specific, distinctive type of conduct.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.