The phrase "a famous case of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a well-known example or incident that illustrates a particular phenomenon or issue.
Example: "The trial of O.J. Simpson is often cited as a famous case of media influence on the judicial process."
Alternatives: "a notable example of" or "a well-known instance of".
(A famous case of this desirable awkwardness involved the humorist Art Buchwald, who moved into a Washington hospice, in 2006, expecting to die, only to thrive there, dining on McDonald's and holding court for months before ultimately moving back out).
The two then work to influence Mansfield's judgment in a famous case of 1783, in which slave traders intentionally drowned their human cargo at sea, and then demanded insurance payment for lost property.
Haven, played by Tygh Runyan, has made a film about a famous case of murder and corruption, involving a seamy politician named Rafe Taschen and a woman named Velma Duran.
There's a famous case of, in the bioethics literature, of somebody who suffered a horrible set of burns over a great deal of their body and had to go through a period, a very long period, of recovery in which they were hospitalized, basically immobilized and in a great deal of pain, while their nerves regenerated and their skin regrafted and the like.
When management at a McDonald's in Flushing, Queens, called the police on a group of older Koreans, prompting outrage at the company's perceived rudeness, calls for a worldwide boycott and a truce mediated by a local politician, it became a famous case of a struggle that happens daily at McDonald's outlets in the city and beyond.
Edwards was also involved in uncovering a famous case of lead contamination in Washington, D.C., drinking water in 2004, which led to an investigation implicating the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) and the EPA in poor monitoring and the use of flawed data.
Just as castellans were freeing themselves from subordination to counts, so the monks claimed exemption from the supervision of bishops: in a famous case the bishop of Orléans was opposed by the learned Abbo of Fleury (died 1004).
MetLife discovered that in a famous case arising out of the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout in the 1980s.
Mr. Berry fought for racial equality as a civil rights lawyer, representing three Tuskegee Airmen in a famous case; as a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and as the official assigned to bring poor people into the policy-making process of the federal anti-poverty effort under Sargent Shriver.
In 1840, contemporaneous with the affair in Rhodes, a more famous case of blood libel, known as the Damascus affair, was developing in Damascus, while the city was under the short-lived control of Muhammad Ali of Egypt.
More recently, a famous case happened in the autumn of 2011, when a number of high school students in LeRoy, a town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, spontaneously started producing incoherent speech patterns, involuntary muscle twitches and facial tics.
