outcome determinative test

outcome-determinative test. Civil procedure. A test used to determine whether an issue is substantive for purposes of the Erie doctrine by examining the issue’s potential effect on the outcome of the litigation. See ERIE DOCTRINE . [Cases: Federal Courts 373.]

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