casebook
- noun
- /ˈkeɪsˌbʊk/
- Students often refer to their casebook when preparing for exams in law school.
- constitutional casebook
Examples
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The lawyer turned to her casebook to find precedents for the upcoming trial.
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Professor Fleming, currently on the faculty of Fordham Law School, was in private practice at the time the casebook was issued.
Academic text (1996) -
Although a casebook is available, no suitable text currently exists.
Academic text (1995) -
Another page in the casebook of Rod Riley was finished.
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"During my first year, he telephoned me daily to discuss the cases in my casebook.
Fiction book (1992) -
Gagg offers an example from his forensic engineer's casebook.
Academic text (2005) -
Rarely do issues of civil litigation receive attention in constitutional law casebooks, and when they do, the discussion is relatively brief.
Academic text (2018) -
The troubled history of nuisance law should thus have been no more than a footnote in any casebook on land use planning or environmental protection.
Academic text (1998) -
Nor is it surprising that a variety of texts and casebooks on constitutional law and civil liberties are available.
Academic text (1993) -
None of the farmers surveyed for the Casebook who had an operating anaerobic digester said that they regret their basic decisions.
Academic text (2000)
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Casebook comes from combining case ('an example or a person's medical or legal situation') and book ('a set of pages'). It is literally a book full of these cases, so doctors and lawyers use a casebook to look up past examples and learn from them.