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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
question:
for that reason, we will assume that trial counsel performed unreasonably when they failed to object to these statements.
answer:
non-overruling


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see ante at .
answer:
non-overruling


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in bassil v. united states, 517 a.2d 714, 717 n. 5 (d.c. 1986), the court acknowledged that van arsdall effectively overruled its decision in springer.
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overruling