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

[EX 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.
[EX A]: non-overruling

[EX Q]: we disapprove this dicta.
[EX A]: overruling

[EX Q]: the cases were all decided prior to the cases cited above in the text.
[EX A]:
overruling