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 agree with appellant that this court incorrectly applied the controlling statute in the hitaffer case, and for the reasons now discussed we overrule hitaffer v. argonne co. as to the interpretation of section 5 of the act.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: a.a.b. is not harmed by our decision to disavow this aspect of m.e.r.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: see maples v. state, 758 so. 2d 1, 25 (ala. crim. app. 1999) (holding that, although the police were armed with guns at the time of the search, there was no indication that they used the guns to coerce the appellant into consenting to the search).

SOLUTION:
non-overruling