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6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 22 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Barnard v. Turner County.

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1 Barnard v. Turner County Anchor
gactapp · 2010
green “where there is an established policy requiring an official to take specified action in a specified situation, the policy creates a ministerial duty on the part of the official to perform the specified task.” 5
2 Todd v. Brooks
gactapp · 2008
green “simple, absolute, and definite act . . . requiring merely the execution of a specific duty.” 4
3 Hicks v. McGee
ga · 2011
green “the fact that appellants failed to correctly perform a ministerial duty cannot serve to change the nature of the act in any manner.” 4
4 Todd v. Brooks
gactapp · 2008
green “decision to ask greenway to sign the release for his two dogs” 3
5 Pattman v. Mann
gactapp · 2010
green “(1) a legal duty to conform to a standard of conduct; (2) a breach of this duty; (3) a causal connection between the conduct and the resulting injury; and (4) damage. . . .” 3
6 Vann v. Finley
gactapp · 2011
green “the question of proximate cause is usually reserved for the jury and can be decided on summary judgment only in plain and indisputable cases.” 3

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