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: under these circumstances we must conclude that the contrary holdings of darlington v. owen county recc, ky., 299 s.w.2d 599; aetna life ins. co. v. bethel, 140 ky. 609, 131 s.w. 523; and madison coal corp. v. altmire, 215 ky. 283, 284 s.w. 1068, are out of harmony with the present view, and to the extent of their conflict with the rule here approved, are overruled.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: as an initial matter, should evidence of dm's   pregnancy be excluded, the evidence of the abortion would cease to be relevant to the extent it is needed to explain why no dna evidence is available.

SOLUTION: non-overruling

PROBLEM: we now explicitly overrule hartwich.

SOLUTION:
overruling