Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
English got rid of its cases and so did all the Romance languages, but the Slavic languages held on tight to theirs.

I guess it depends on your definition of 'case'. Equating 'case' with the grammatical markers used to indicate case makes for some strange combinations. In Latin, for example, in first declension genitive and dative singular are the same case and in second declension dative and ablative singular are the same case. I would prefer to think of case as the actual relation a noun has with other elements in a sentence.