Case reports rose to popularity around the same time as the creation of periodical journals, and are the greatest source of evidence to support the majority of clinical practices in speech-language pathology. There has been an overwhelming increase in publications of case reports in the last decade at the international level. Even when their contributions to evidence-based practices are called into question, case reports continue to be an essential part of science and contribute in a significant way to the formulation of hypotheses that can lead to more complex studies.