The thief cased the jewelry store before the heist.

The cased smartphone slid across the table when I bumped it.

I always carry an umbrella in case it rains.

Case determines the syntactic function of a noun phrase, marking whether it is the subject, the object, or the indirect object.

Case arrived at the courthouse and introduced himself to the clerk.

Keep a flashlight in case of a power outage.

In this case, the experiment produced unexpected results.

The brewery shipped several casefuls of limited-release ale to the festival.

She brought a caseful of bottled water to the outdoor event.

When assessing complex patients, clinicians must consider caseness—the degree to which the accepted standardized diagnostic criteria for a given condition are applicable to a particular patient—rather than relying solely on checklist scores.