TASK DEFINITION: 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
PROBLEM: adoption of leland, 65 mass. app. ct. 580, 584 (2006), quoting from care & protection of bruce, 44 mass. app. ct. 758, 761 (1998).

SOLUTION: non-overruling

PROBLEM: to the extent that dicta in sheridan could be read otherwise, we reject that dicta.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: the issue of preservation of a challenge to a jury instruction has developed over time in this commonwealth.

SOLUTION:
non-overruling