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: whatever may be said for the proposition that vines was overruled sub silentio by spears, we conclude that insofar as it stands for the proposition that a utility company owes no duty to persons who may, through foreseeable negligence, come in contact with its poles, vines must be overruled.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: inasmuch as the supreme court of the united states has directly held that a geographical term which was descriptive of the place where the articles were manufactured was not registrable even though it had acquired a secondary meaning, we must follow our decision in the overhead door case, supra, which is in harmony with the views of the supreme court, and in so far as the opinion in the case of in re plymouth motor corporation, supra, expresses a contrary view, it must be considered as overruled.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: it may well be expensive to obtain an opinion of counsel.

SOLUTION:
non-overruling