In 1992, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in a case entitled Goodman v. Wenco Foods, Inc, that ...

In 1992, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in a case entitled Goodman v. Wenco Foods, Inc, that when a substance in food causes injury to a consumer of the food, it is not a bar to recovery against the seller that the substance was natural to the food. If, in a 2008 case involving a consumer's injury caused by a fish bone in a bowl of fish chowder, the court followed the decision in Goodman v. Wenco Foods, Inc, the court's action in the second case is an example of
 A) stare decisis.
 B) statutory law.
 C) public law.
 D) criminal law.