"progress in this case" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to progress in an ongoing event or situation. For example, "The lawyers have been making progress in this case, and the court is expected to reach a decision soon."
Here's Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard: The idea that Thimerosal was the cause of autism was of a piece with the larger environmental push to show that progress (in this case inoculation) was, in fact, poison.
Ronald Clancy QC, for Ticketus, said: "In my submission the best way to make real progress in this case is for the administrators to come back with a proper factual context for the directions sought.
We also described the ineffectiveness of oseltamivir to control disease progress in this case of human H7N9 infection, despite the fact that the treatment was initiated on the same day as the disease onset.
It showed to some degree the amount of pressure everyone was under, not just the police, the hospital, Crown Prosecution Service, to try and make progress in the case, and we are sorry this happened".
The police have made little progress in the case.
Months passed with no sign of progress in the case.
Before that, judges will schedule interim status conferences to discuss progress in the case.
An investigation by 4,000 federal agents and 3,000 support personnel made major progress in the case.
Before that, judges will schedule conferences to discuss progress in the case, during which Gbagbo can challenge his detention.
The cameraman, Hiro Muramoto, was from Japan, and Japanese officials have been frustrated by the lack of progress in the case.
The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, applauded the progress in the case and said Rehtaeh's death was a terrible tragedy that touched people across Canada.
