The phrase "applied to this case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how a particular rule, principle, or concept is relevant or relevantly utilized in a specific situation or instance.
Example: "The legal principles established in the previous ruling can be applied to this case to determine the outcome."
Alternatives: "relevant to this situation" or "pertinent to this matter".
Mr. Lewis argued that that law should not have applied to this case.
I wonder, however, why the lessons learned early in the AIDS epidemic through the actions of activists have not been applied to this case.
The ASA's decision with regards the Snickers campaign was sensible and credited the Twittersphere with an appropriate degree of intelligence and comprehension: it is a shame that the same subtlety has not been applied to this case.
Ms. Reno's advisers were badly split on how the law applied to this case, and several aides said the statute required an independent counsel to determine whether Mr. Gore's statements were true.
If something close to the House version of the shield law were to become reality and be applied to this case, Locy would be off the hook, because the reporter's privilege in most civil cases like Hatfill's would be absolute.
On the utilitarian principles Singer plausibly applied to this case, any action becomes a duty if it will prevent more pain than it causes or cause more happiness than it prevents.
Two do not apply to this case.
I don't think the statute was written to apply to this case".
In her dissenting opinion, perhaps the most powerful of her career, Justice Ginsburg shredded the assertion that any such "fundamental principle" could apply to this case.
Massachusetts has applied the state's strong antidiscrimination statutes to tournaments at private golf and country clubs, which "surely supports the conclusion that it applies to this case," the judge wrote.
In a 30-page document filed with Federal District Court in Washington, the Justice Department and 19 states suing the company characterized its arguments as a strained effort at knocking down legal "straw men" and an attempt to "apply to this case out-of-context passages from decisions involving patently different market circumstances".
