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
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Question: we disapprove of those statements in brooks and green because deterrence is directed at persons who have committed wrongful acts.

Answer: overruling


Question: the plaintiff, whose marriage to the defendant previously had been dissolved, appealed to this court from the judgment of the trial court denying his motion to modify the dissolution judgment by terminating his alimony obligation because of the defendant's alleged cohabitation with her boyfriend.

Answer: non-overruling


Question: we recede from prior opinions inconsistent with this holding.

Answer:
overruling