 The court dispensed with this substantive/procedural distinction and stated that regardless of whether the case was argued in state or federal court, the outcome should be substantially the same.Thus, the court set forth an "outcome determinative test" for deciding whether a piece of state law must be obeyed in federal courts—if the outcome is substantively the same then the federal court can apply its own rules instead of state rules.The court held in this case that the New York Statute of limitations be obeyed and the case was reversed and remanded.