"represented a case" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a person in a court of law, or when you are talking about a legal situation. For example, you could say: "My lawyer represented my case in court."
In a country where the very French Revolutionary concept of secularity (laïcité) has sometimes complicated, rather than facilitated, the integration of immigrants from the former colonies, Koubi represented a case of near-seamless transplantation.
The results supported the interpretation that blue mussels evolved a shell-thickening response to the presence of green crabs within 50 to 100 years, and the observed morphological response to Asian shore crabs by the southern but not the northern mussel populations represented a case of rapid evolution (within 15 years) by mussels to an invasive species of predator.
Even if Troy Davis did not show a persuasive case of actual innocence, it undeniably represented a case of too much doubt.
He described Belfast as being in "a really wonderful state of preservation" and that saving her for the nation represented a "case of grasping the last opportunity".
The cat2 doubleouble mutant represented a case where both of the single mutants are LMMs (Additional file 7: Figure S6).
The clinical significance of recovery of Aspergillus spp. was determined individually by the physician in charge, who established whether isolation of Aspergillus spp. represented a case of colonization or infection.
When a particular report did not include a formal evaluation of cancer rates - e.g. because the analysis was limited to cases only, or because the report represented a case-control analysis of the association between the cancer(s) of concern and the exposure(s) of interest - a cluster was considered confirmed based on the information provided by the authors.
Eflornithine represents a case where it may be possible to serve both interests at once.
The Starr investigation represents a case study in the unintended consequences of reform..
The Starr investigation represents a case study in the unintended consequences of reform.
Not a bad joke, except that it seemed to represent a case of what psychoanalysts might call displacement.
