The Court explicitly overruled Bowers.

The majority opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, explicitly overruled Bowers v. Hardwick.

Although the Supreme Court did not explicitly overrule Lochner, it did agree to give more deference to the decisions of state legislatures.

Brandeis does not go that far here, and his views were ultimately adopted by the Court in Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969), which explicitly overruled Whitney.

Brandenburg did not explicitly overrule the bad tendency test, but it appears that after "Brandenburg", the test is de facto overruled.

Lawrence explicitly overruled Bowers, holding that it had viewed the liberty interest too narrowly.

But the Court explicitly overruled that decision last year in the Citizens United case.

In the en banc opinion later issued in that case, the Federal Circuit jettisoned the useful-concrete-tangible test stated in State Street, but it did not explicitly overrule State Street in its entirety.

To the Editor: Over the last year, the Supreme Court explicitly overruled five of its previous decisions, all in the area of criminal procedure.

On abortion and discrimination the 5-to-4 majority, without explicitly overruling prior decisions, nonetheless reversed course on settled doctrines.