case

For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.

Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace.

It was one of the detective's easiest cases.  Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases.  The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning.

The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.

Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]

The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object.  Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.

Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.  Latin is a language that employs case.

There were another five cases reported overnight.

Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.