What are cases?

Famous quotes containing the word cases:

    I want in all cases to do right.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    Lovers’ quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    ... and the next summer she died in childbirth.
    That’s all. Of course, there may be some sort of sequel but it is not known to me. In such cases instead of getting bogged down in guesswork, I repeat the words of the merry king in my favorite fairy tale: Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)