In this task, you will be shown a sentence, and you should determine whether it is overruling or non-overruling. In law, an overruling sentence is a statement that nullifies a previous case decision as a precedent by a constitutionally valid statute or a decision by the same or higher ranking court which establishes a different rule on the point of law involved. Classify your answers into overruling or non-overruling

[EX Q]: to the extent that they follow or approve of the holding in ex parte erwin, supra, the following cases are also overruled.
[EX A]: overruling

[EX Q]: courts must construe briefs ""reasonably yet liberally.""
[EX A]: non-overruling

[EX Q]: thus, the statements in these older cases merely reflected the prevailing law at the time, a rule abrogated by the present version of section 634
[EX A]:
overruling