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

[EX Q]: while we realize that it is not strictly necessary, our holding, of course, overrules sherod.
[EX A]: overruling

[EX Q]: concluding that the outcome of this appeal with respect to attorney fees turns on our precedent in devine v. national treasury employees union, 805 f.2d 384 (fed. cir. 1986), and goodrich v. department of the navy, 733 f.2d 1578 (fed. cir. 1984), we decided to rehear the appeal en banc so that we could consider the following question:
[EX A]: overruling

[EX Q]: applicant was convicted of solicitation of capital murder and sentenced to life years' imprisonment.
[EX A]:
non-overruling