Word.ws English Dictionary

leading cases

leading cases is the plural of leading case.

Meaning of leading case

Noun

leading case (plural leading cases)

  1. (Australia, Canada, Commonwealth, UK) A reported decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved.
    • It is remarkable , that in the leading case cited as the foundation of the whole doctrine1857, Austin Abbott, Reports of Practice Cases
    Synonyms:
    landmark case

Questions about leading cases

What is leading cases the plural of?
Leading cases is the plural of leading case.

Words near leading cases in the dictionary

  1. leading astray
  2. leading axle
  3. leading axles
  4. leading by the nose
  5. leading case
  6. leading cases
  7. leading diagonal
  8. leading diagonals
  9. leading edge
  10. leading edges
  11. leading from the front

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: leading cases (page history and authors); leading case (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “leading cases.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/leading_cases. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.