55 N.C. App. 341 - Ferguson v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably 200 N.C. App. 162 - Carcano v. JBSS, LLC (2009), 80 N.C. App. 561 - Hinson v. Hinson (1986)
24 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
Relies on Summey v. Cauthen · Glass v. Hulbert · Bryant v. Kelly · Security National Bank of Greensboro v. Educators Mutual Life Insurance · Willetts v. Willetts
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f defendants in this case made a promissory representation, intending at that time not to comply with the promise but rather to induce the plaintiff to act, such misrepresentation is fraudulent and will support the imposition of a constructive trust. ... In this case, plaintiff clearly alleged that there existed an oral agreement between the parties prior to the legal conveyance of the land and further alleged that the defendants made promissory representations merely to mislead her while having no intention of complying with their promises .... In this case, the plaintiff alleged that the defendants never intended to fulfill their oral agreement when they induced her to convey the land to them. Because genuine issues of material fact concerning fraud were present, summary judgment was properly denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To establish fraud the false representation must be of some material fact that is past or existing.”
1 later decision 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.