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By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: The case clause within a switch statement specifies one of the values that the switch statement can evaluate to. If the switch statement evaluates to this particular case value then the statements following the case label will be run. Case is a reserved word and cannot be used for anything other than declaring a case within a switch statement.
Examples:
case "house":
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