"Procedure cases" refers to legal disputes that involve the rules and steps followed in a legal process, such as a trial. It refers to the specific situations that require the proper execution of legal procedures and protocols. Full definition
When I was in law school, one of my criminal law professors pointed out that most of landmark constitutional criminal procedure cases involved bad people who did bad things, but some key component of the procedural protections required got omitted or went awry. (lawyerist.com)
After all, a large percentage of criminal procedure cases involve drug prosecutions. (sentencing.typepad.com)
I counted 15 civil procedure cases reported on Quicklaw that mentioned proportionality from January 1 to February 14. (slaw.ca)