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: we therefore disapprove the discussion in russell v. roberts, supra, 39 cal.app.3d at pages 394-395, and the dicta in goodyear v. mack, supra, 159 cal.app.3d at pages 659-660, and shepherd v. robinson, supra, 128 cal.app.3d at page 626.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: to the extent that state v. martin, 285 kan. 994, 179 p.3d 457,cert.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: therefore, lynch does not support the sweeping statement made by the haywood court; and because the haywood court clearly contradicts beaver in flatly stating that the state criminal judgment of a court not elected in accordance with the tennessee constitution is "wholly void," 195 tenn. at 273, 259 s.w.2d at 162, haywood is overruled to that extent.

SOLUTION:
overruling