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5 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 45 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 Elwood v. County of Rice.

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1 Elwood v. County of Rice Anchor
minn · 1988
green “a public official charged by law with duties which call for the exercise of his judgment or discretion is not personally liable to an individual for damages unless he is guilty of a willful or malicious wrong.” 18
2 Rico v. State
minn · 1991
green “means nothing more than the intentional doing of a wrongful act without legal justification or excuse, or, otherwise stated, the willful violation of a known right.” 8
3 Rico v. State
minn · 1991
green “the intentional doing of a wrongful act without legal justification or excuse, or, otherwise stated, the willful violation of a known right.” 8
4 Rico v. State
minn · 1991
green “nothing more than the intentional doing of a wrongful act without legal justification or excuse, or, otherwise stated, the willful violation of a known right.” 6
5 Cook v. Trovatten
minn · 1937
green “absolute, certain, and imperative, involving merely execution of a specific duty arising from fixed and designated facts.” 5

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