The phrase "a potential case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation or scenario that may develop into a case or issue worth considering or investigating.
Example: "After reviewing the evidence, we believe there is a potential case for further legal action."
Alternatives: "a possible case" or "a likely case".
But Mr. Fuld told the S.E.C. that he had never heard of Repo 105, officials said, undermining a potential case.
After a potential case is identified, the government-funded liaisons contact law enforcement agencies to ask them to fill out a 19-point questionnaire about each incident.
New Jersey officials also announced yesterday that a fourth postal worker was suffering from anthrax-like symptoms and that they were considering it a potential case.
I grew up in a white suburb in Connecticut, a potential case study of drugs in suburbia and the racial double standard.
Yet in a potential case study for business schools, the question is now being asked: Does Mr. Buffett delegate too much?
Both Mr. Martoma and Mr. Steinberg have refused to cooperate with the government in helping them build a potential case against their former boss, Mr. Cohen.
For illustration a potential case-study is presented, which tries to quantify pollinator responses on landscape derived metrics at various scales.
A19 U.S. Given Assurances on Beef The Agriculture Department won assurance from the Japanese government that a second potential case of mad cow disease found on American soil would not affect negotiations to resume beef exports to Japan.
We explored a second potential case of highly accelerated mitochondrial sequence evolution in plants.
As far as we know, there are few papers that deal with a general bounded potential case for problem (1.4).
For each potential case, a control was randomly selected from the study base matched on age, gender and residential area.
