Literary notes about cases (AI summary)
The term "cases" appears in literature with an impressively wide range of meanings and nuances. In some texts it denotes distinct legal or judicial matters, such as in discussions of court proceedings ([1], [2], [3]), while in others it refers to examples or instances that illustrate broader points—from scientific investigations ([4], [5], [6]) to everyday occurrences ([7], [8]). Authors also deploy the term to signal particular scenarios or conditions that require closer scrutiny, as in methodological or experimental contexts ([9], [10]), and even in descriptions of physical objects like packing cases or display cases ([11], [12]). In grammatical discussions, "cases" is highlighted as a linguistic feature, indicating different forms or functions of nouns ([13], [14]). Overall, the versatility of "cases" in literature demonstrates how a single word can be adapted to diverse contexts, whether it be legal, scientific, rhetorical, or descriptive.
- [160] Many of the cases which have been put thus far are cases where the proximate cause of the loss was intended to be produced by the defendant.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - In the United States, Admiralty cases are taken up in the first instance by the district courts.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - In some cases (and they are frequently the most important ones) the American judges have the right of deciding causes alone.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - In some cases, however, the mature animal is generally considered as lower in the scale than the larva, as with certain parasitic crustaceans.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - In both cases physical conditions seem to have produced some direct and definite effect, but how much we cannot say.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - In some cases variations or individual differences of a favourable nature may never have arisen for natural selection to act on and accumulate.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - In some cases he would get so impatient at the worldly prudence of Franklin that he could not help using strong words of denunciation.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore - The daily { 252} impressions which the savage gets yield the notion very imperfectly, and in but few cases.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - To magnify this phenomenon, we need only think of a few slightly abnormal cases.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - Figs. 8 and 9 show the result of [Pg 36] 169 cases carefully studied by Exner.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - “Put down the lamp, Kezia,” said Aunt Beryl, “or we shall have the house on fire before we are out of the packing cases.
— from Bliss, and other stories by Katherine Mansfield - Around the hall and in a small gallery were the books, arranged in carved oaken cases.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving - In other cases the feminine has been indicated except in invariable adjectives.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón - PLURAL CASES.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
