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: accordingly, we agree with the defendants that colquitt should not be followed; to the extent that colquitt is inconsistent with our opinion in this case, colquitt is overruled.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: accordingly, to the extent our decision in ashness is inconsistent with this opinion, we decline to follow it.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: thus, to the extent today's holding rests on a distinction between "traditional" governmental functions and their nontraditional counterparts, see ante, at 344, it cannot be reconciled with prior precedent.

SOLUTION:
overruling