How to Use case law in a Sentence

case law

noun
  • Case law says that a person has a right to privacy.
  • There’s case law on this from the past.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But there's a lot of case law that defines the scope of what is a true threat.
    — Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Creating a will is based on state laws and decades of case law.
    — Christine Fletcher, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • There may be some case law that impacts the answer to this question.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Those phrases are backed by hundreds of years of case law and legal custom.
    — Dallas News, 5 June 2022
  • Reyes said case law puts the burden for asking the right questions on the defense.
    — Steve Karnowski, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The bigger issue may be that case law hasn’t defined what should be public.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • That and case law also supports the view that the president can switch chairs at will.
    — Brady Dale, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
  • At the heart of this argument is a piece of case law known as the dormant commerce clause.
    — Time, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Lawyers are using it to draft contracts and analyze case law.
    — Leadership Brainery, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • But case law isn’t exactly in the victim’s favor with the statute.
    — Ingrid Burrington, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2017
  • First, the court’s case law has grown exponentially in the past few decades.
    — Filiz Kahraman, Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • Ramos said new case law could help overturn Park’s convictions.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 28 June 2025
  • Disney sees it differently and has their own case law for support.
    — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The decision conflicted with decades of case law.
    — ABC News, 18 May 2026
  • What Sasser has found here is a kind of case law — and the rudiments of a justice system.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2018
  • Both sides point to the city’s municipal code, public records and case law to bolster their claims.
    — Daily Pilot, 20 Sep. 2019
  • It’s shaped in our courts, developed through case law, and always at risk of being challenged.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
  • No one hires top-tier consultants for their engaging slide decks or a skilled law firm for access to statutes and case law.
    — Jeff Berkowitz, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The memo is devoid of discussion of the way case law has been developing in this area for the last few years.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 5 Oct. 2017
  • So is there enough previous case law for courts to analogize to this situation?
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • There is also case law that says if the status quo is working for your children, it should not be disrupted.
    — Wendy Hickey, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Last week, both teams revealed their sentence requests to the judge along with corresponding case law.
    — Essence, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Roy said even the park service’s own attorneys couldn’t keep up with Hendricks’ knowledge of case law.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • But last week, a judge referenced case law in which rape cases were attached to crimes in a different county.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
  • Once those are created, they can be used repeatedly and edited when new case law warrants a change.
    — John Wisely, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Poa contends this presents a conflict that is unsupported by the statute, case law or agency guidance.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • With total recall of case law, an LLM could include dozens of cases.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
  • According to case law, an agency that does not have the power to regulate does not have the power to preempt.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2018

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