The phrase "a past case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a situation or example that has occurred previously, often in legal, medical, or academic contexts.
Example: "In a past case, the court ruled in favor of the defendant, setting a precedent for similar situations."
Alternatives: "a previous instance" or "an earlier case".
However, the software project network may be designed differently depending upon the adopted development methodology and the style of the manager, so full automation of adjusting a past case is almost impossible.
If a consensus emerges that a past case was wrongly decided, later judgments will distinguish it from new cases, effectively restricting the scope of the ratio to the original case.
We defined a past case of kala-azar as an illness with >2 weeks of fever that resolved after 20 days of intramuscular injections and included a history of 1 or more of the following symptoms: weight loss, abdominal fullness, abdominal pain, or skin darkening.
That is, a causal relationship exists, not for a past event like in the case of liability, but it is assumed for a future one.
Despite insisting that reforms are necessary to allow future civil claims to proceed, ministers cannot point to a single past case that has been struck out because too much relevant material was protected.
In a kind of "reflective adjustment", they fit the new problem into a patchwork of past case decisions, comparing cases in order to reason about the legal significance of the relevant similarities and differences.
Richard Dare, the president of the New Jersey Symphony, resigned after nine days when questions arose over a past criminal case and over his business experience.
It was drafted in response to a past court case wherein the online service Prodigy was found to meet the definition of a "publisher" because they were capable of taking down specific message board posts and had in the past done so –therefore they were held to be liable for a libelous post that they failed to take down.
Rita asks Dexter to look into the problem using his police connections, and he finds a list of subjects from a past police case.
The article by Erik Kolbell, "Fake Nostalgia for a Pre-Therapy Past" (Cases, March 9), is a necessary antidote to the perception that children are being given too much mental health treatment.
It's unclear how Twitter's new photo-sharing service will affect third-party photo-sharing sites but taking a look at past cases of where Twitter has entered a market shows that these apps may be in trouble.
