objective case
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Accordingly, writers in these fields place high value on neutral and objective case analysis and inferences based on the careful examination of data.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Her legal team said "there is a powerful objective case as to why the mother should be genuinely in fear if the father has access to a property overbearing her own".
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2021
If chalk wins out and the No. 1 overall seed Zags take the title, they will have the strongest objective case for the claim of best team ever.
From Slate • Mar. 14, 2021
As the object of “letting,” this should have been in the objective case: “a friend and me.”
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2014
In all these sentences the interrogative pronoun is in the objective case, and should be used in the objective form, which is whom, and not who.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly
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