The phrase "leading cases" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to refer to important court decisions that establish precedents.
Example: "The lawyer cited several leading cases to support her argument in court."
Alternatives: "landmark cases" or "precedent-setting cases".
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But with so many important cases decided by such close margins (the two leading cases of the past term, on the rights of the Guantánamo detainees and the Second Amendment right to own a gun, were decided by votes of 5 to 4), perhaps fragility, rather than stability, best characterizes the court today, and that is a reminder of the stakes involved in any Supreme Court vacancy.
In 1929 Denning produced an edition of Smith's Leading Cases which is a collector's item.
Indeed, this term's leading cases highlight another type of Supreme Court activism that hasn't received much attention: vigorously policing and overturning district court judges who ordinarily would have much more leeway — particularly when those judges had used that leeway in a liberal direction.
In 1929 he helped edit several chapters of Smith's Leading Cases (13th ed).
His book In the Highest Degree Odious (1992) was about detention without trial in second world war Britain and Simpson also produced the collection Leading Cases in the Common Law (1995).
The leading case on the doctrine is Heath v. Alabama.
Ultimately, the US Supreme Court ruled in his favor in 1981 in what became a leading case in attorney-client privilege.
In 1993 in R v Brown, a leading case of consent, he ruled that the intentional infliction of bodily harm in sado-masochistic activities was unlawful.
One of his ancestors signed both the Declaration of Independence and the constitution and his great-grand- father had acted for the defence in the leading case about the confidentiality of presidential documents.
A leading case, according to Kay, is David Ray Griffin, a former professor at the Claremont School of Theology who has devoted his retirement to writing no fewer than 11 books that examine each minute of the 9/11 timeline.
