[4] It was initially named for Franklin Thomas Backus, a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, whose widow donated $50,000 to found the school in 1892.

[5] According to Case Western Reserve's official 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 65.9% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners, ranking 114th out of 200 ABA-approved law schools.

[11] In addition to its JD curriculum, the law school offers LLM and SJD degrees to foreign-trained lawyers.

According to Case Western Reserve's official 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 65.9% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners.

[7] For 2021, Case Western Reserve's Law School Transparency under-employment score was 15%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2021 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.

[13] The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $320,718, while 47.8% of students received an annual discount greater than or equal to $40,000.

Associate Justice John Hessin Clarke of the United States Supreme Court (1916–1922) was educated when the school was known as Western Reserve College.

Another prominent alumnus is William Daroff – chief executive officer at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and former member of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.