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: 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

PROBLEM: see in re patillo, 32 s.w.3d 907, 910 (tex. app.corpus christi 2000, orig. proceeding) (striking portions of contempt order requiring relator to remain incarcerated until he pays costs that relator was not actually held in contempt for failing to pay).

SOLUTION: non-overruling

PROBLEM: the majority wisely corrects our mistake in mendiola by overruling that case's interpretation of these rules.

SOLUTION:
overruling