M/O Contessa v. McCarthy, 40 N.Y.2d 629, decided Oct. 27, 1976, just days before the 1976 presidential election, not afterwards, helped Jimmy Carter win occupancy to the Oval Office over "incumbent-Candidate-President Gerald Ford. See article whimsically titled "Did the New York State Court of Appeals Elect Jimmy Carter President in 1976?" (Joseph W. Bellacosa, Editor, N.Y. State Bar Assoc. Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 1, One-On-One [1984]).