138 N.C. App. 261 - Reid v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Sykes v. Health Network Solutions, Inc. (2019), 142 N.C. App. 393 - Burgess v. Busby (2001)
2 district · 40 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1692A (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)
Relies on Heintz v. Jenkins · King v. Grindstaff · 131 N.C. App. 242 - First Atlantic Management, Corp. v. Dunlea Realty, Co. · Zimmerman v. HBO Affiliate Group · 58 N.C. App. 414 - Cameron v. New Hanover Memorial Hospital, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are declared unlawful. (b) For purposes of this section, "commerce" includes all business activities, however denominated , but does not include professional services rendered by a member of a learned profession.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]dvertising is not an essential component to the rendering of legal services and thus would fall outside the exemption.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The specific and general provisions of Part 3 of this Article shall constitute unfair or deceptive acts or practices proscribed herein or by G.S. 75-1.1 in the area of commerce regulated thereby; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 75-16, the civil penalties provided in this section shall not be trebled. Civil penalties in excess of four thousand dollars ($4,000) for each violation shall not be imposed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.