The phrase "a notorious case of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a well-known or infamous example of something, often with negative connotations.
Example: "The trial became a notorious case of judicial misconduct that shocked the public."
Alternatives: "a famous instance of" or "a well-known example of".
A new book reopens a notorious case of bungled science in the Soviet Union.
The tiny island of Nauru is a notorious case of the dangers of focusing on a single commodity.
And there, to define a big local-news story, are pictures of Joel Steinberg and Hedda Nussbaum, principals in a notorious case of child abuse.
Minute 6: Reviewer passes a gory tableau that may or may not be a riff on a notorious case of police abuse in New York.
Watched "Advise and Consent" over the weekend — the 1962 Otto Preminger movie from the 1959 Allen Drury novel (which beat out Bellow's "Henderson the Rain King" for the Pulitzer in a notorious case of the board overruling the committee).
He is believed to have presided over the free transfer of properties to the relatives of Mr. Ben Ali, including a notorious case of property used for a private school in Carthage owned by Mr. Ben Ali's wife.
In a notorious case, Stephen of Garland tried to claim the seneschalsy as his property and for a time even held three offices at once; but this abuse was soon remedied and taught caution to Louis VI and his successors.
The tax official, Olga Stepanova, was also at the center of a notorious case: the lawyer Sergei L. Magnitsky accused her of embezzling $230 million from the Russian Treasury by filing false corporate tax returns.
A notorious case is Norton Wise, a historian of science at Princeton University who applied for a post at the Institute for Advanced Study.
The reforms grew out of a notorious case in the F.B.I.'s Boston office that came to light in 1997.
More than once, the district attorney drew a connection to a notorious case in Brooklyn 11 years ago, that of Abner Louima, a 30-year-old black Haitian immigrant who was tortured and sodomized with a broomstick by a white officer in the bathroom of a police station house.
