MYSQL - Join most recent matching record from one table to another

Question

I have two tables that look like this:

Table: cases

id
name
status
case_no

Table: notes

id
case_id
note_date
notes

Answer 1

    SELECT *
      FROM cases c
INNER JOIN notes n ON n.case_id = c.id
                  AND n.id = (SELECT MAX(id)
                                FROM notes
                               WHERE case_id = c.id)

Also it is a common practice to keep the pointer to the last note id directly in cases table and support it with trigger