92 N.C. App. 336 - Ferguson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2025
13 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 32 N.C. App. 1 - Batiste v. American Home Products Corp. · Batiste v. American Home Products Corp. · 90 N.C. App. 271 - Warren v. Halifax County · Spry v. . Kiser
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While a pharmacist has no duty to advise absent knowledge of the circumstances ... once a pharmacist is alerted to the specific facts and he or she undertakes to advise a customer, the pharmacist then has the duty to advise correctly.”
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.