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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
question:
while we realize that it is not strictly necessary, our holding, of course, overrules sherod.
answer:
overruling


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however, because the stalking statute proscribes an entire course of conduct, ""a second or successive offense is not necessarily committed by acts that are factually distinct from each other but only by acts that are factually distinct from the entire course of conduct punished by the first conviction.""
answer:
non-overruling


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because the result reached in state v. murdock, 299 kan. 312, 323 p.3d 846 (2014), modified by supreme court order september 19, 2014, was dictated by williams, we also overrule murdock.
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overruling