casebook meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

casebook

noun

/ˈkeɪsˌbʊk/

Etymology From case + book. First use appears c. 1675.

Law US A kind of book, used in law schools, containing the text of court opinions in legal cases accompanied by analysis and related materials.

A collection of stories or accounts that can individually be described as cases.

adj

Etymology From case + book. First use appears c. 1675.

Figuratively, Uncommon Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon; a textbook example.

Her shrink had told her that her own father, as she'd describe him, was practically a casebook example of an anal retentive.1977, Cyra McFadden, The Serial, A Year in the Life of Marin County, page 70:

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