test case
Noun
Meaning
a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent
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The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.
Although the UCA won their first test case in Wisconsin in 1907, prosecutions instigated by state medical boards became increasingly common and in many cases were successful.
But if Dani Dayan’s tenure was a test case in how we would handle, say, an Israeli decision to annex portions of the West Bank, then all the predictions of a serious rupture between Israel and progressive Jews in the U.S. are bunk — and Israelis know it.
At the same time, that could scuttle the Trump administration’s efforts to make Oklahoma a test case for its plan to transform the entitlement program into a block grant.
Clinically defined, a test case is an input and an expected result. citation This can be as terse as 'for condition x your derived result is y', although normally test cases describe in more detail the input scenario and what results might be expected.
If we use the Alex Ogbu murder as a test case by firing the Inspector General of Police (IGP) long with his Abuja Commissioner of Police, and bringing the killer cops to book, the shock therapy will restore some sanity in the police force.