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test case

noun

a typical case whose court decision may be interpreted as a precedent for application in future similar cases.
a legal action taken, sometimes deliberately by agreement of both parties, with a special view to determining the position of the law on some matter, as the constitutionality of a statute.

test case

First recorded in 1890–95

“They used Sochi as a test case for a more intrusive system,” Galeotti said.

If the Virginia gubernatorial election was a test case, then the early answer is a clear “yes.”

After petitioning for the assignment through her chain of command, the Navy decided to make her a test case.

New Orleans offers a test case, on an unprecedented scale, of how this vision plays out.

It turns out Afghanistan of the 1980s is a terrific test case for how to handle the Syrian rebels.

From the Willamette valley to San Francisco—a test case soon to run a long course before the courts—lumber rates were $3.10.

Here she planned the steps by which to win public approval and financial aid for her test case.

She had been to him lately little more than a "test case" of the spiritual world, clothed about with the memory of sentiment.

This experience of ours, however, could not be regarded strictly as a test case.

In the test case which now came before the courts he played a part of consummate boldness and heroism.

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