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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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this court's lewis decision, in placing great emphasis on the fact that lewis' petit theft and uttering a forgery offenses were based on the "same act," and in going beyond the blockburger test, cannot be reconciled with recent supreme court rulings.
answer:
overruling


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frazee remains good law, and howell's statement to the contrary should no longer be followed.
answer:
overruling


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to the extent of conflict herewith, we disapprove of the opinion in halpin.
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overruling