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 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: thus, we disapprove of the reasoning of bates, which was followed in owens and soriano, and we approve judge sharp's dissent in owens.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: the principle underlying gaines, however, leads us to now reject the instruction we once approved in tolkow and to overrule that holding.

SOLUTION:
overruling