Douglas v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An agent who handles travel and vacation plans is a special agent of the traveler for purposes of that one transaction between the parties____ And this is so even though the agent’s compensation may be paid by the company to whom she steers the business, much like an advertising agent____ [The travel agent has] a duty to act with the care, skill and diligence a fiduciary rendering that kind of service would reasonably be expected to use____ This agency relationship also impose[s] a duty to promptly communicate to [the] principals confirmations and all other relevant information about the proposed travel plans and tours which would help them protect themselves from harm or loss.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Maurer v. Cerkvenik-Anderson Travel, Inc.

2. “); Markland v. Travel Travel Southfield, Inc., 810 S.W.2d 81, 83-84 (Mo.Ct.App.1991) (imposing duty to use reasonable efforts to apprise a customer of material information); Douglas v. Steele, 816 P.2d 586, 590 (Okla.Civ.App.1991) (“[A] travel agent ... ha[s] a duty to discover and disclose to [the traveler] material information which is reasonably obtainable unless the information is so clearly obvious and apparent to the principal that, as a matter of law, the travel agent would not be negligent in failing to disclose it”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 639 F. Supp. 2d 467 - Schwartz v. Hilton Hotels Corp.