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In most API's the Get action can be used to get all of them (contacts, activities etc.). This can not be done for the Case API, if you call it like this:
$apiCases = civicrm_api( 'Case', 'Get', array('version'=>3 ));

an error message is returned:
{
"is_error":1,
"error_message":"Missing required parameter. Must provide case_id, client_id, activity_id, or contact_id."
}
From a consistency point of view I would say it should return all cases. Points of view before I update the core versions?

Case api is a bit more robust than what the basic get would return (since it allows you to search across 3 tables - not just case but also case_activity and case_contact).
But I agree that removing the requirement for search criteria is a good change.