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: that is because ""if counsel has failed to conduct a reasonable investigation to prepare for sentencing, then he cannot possibly be said to have made a reasonable decision as to what to present at sentencing.""

SOLUTION: non-overruling

PROBLEM: now that this court is reexamining that question, i am satisfied with the conclusion that under our statutory law, the husband has no such right and that gist v. french, supra, should be disapproved.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: see generally lancaster cty. bar ass'n v. s.c. comm'n on indigent def., 380 s.c. 219, 222, 670 s.e.2d 371, 373 (2008) (stating the appellate court will reject a construction of a statute that leads to an absurd result not intended by the legislature).

SOLUTION:
non-overruling