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

Q: and it would enable state courts to blame the unpopular death-sentence reprieve of the most horrible criminals upon the federal constitution when it is in fact their own doing.

A: non-overruling
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Q: accordingly, we similarly disapprove the decisions in vanderbilt inn on the gulf v. pfenninger, __ so.2d __, 2002 wl 459252 (fla. 2d dca february 8, 2002), bomemann v. ure, 778 so.2d 1077 (fla. 4th dca 2001), and silva v. lazar, 766 so.2d 341 (fla. 4th dca 2000), to the extent that they adopt the erroneous due diligence principle of tejada which is disapproved here.

A: overruling
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Q: to the extent that a contrary rule is expressed in terry v. state, 540 so.2d 782, 783-84 (ala.cr.app. 1988), cert. denied, 540 so.2d 785 (ala. 1989), it is expressly overruled.

A:
overruling
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