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Voting-affinity data
for the 2010-2020 Terms
(September 1, 2009 to August 31, 2020)

Boyd
Boyd
Brown
Brown

In 2010-2020, they participated together in 506 decisions (including per curiams)

Joined the same opinions 420/506 83.0%
Different opinions, same judgment 23/506 4.5%
Agreed on judgment 443/506 87.5%
Disagreed on judgment 63/506 12.5%

And 122 of those led to split (non-unanimous) opinions

Joined the same opinions 36/122 29.5%
Different opinions, same judgment 23/122 18.9%
Agreed on judgment 59/122 48.4%
Disagreed on judgment 63/122 51.6%
 

Within those 122 cases that had some split opinions:

36 cases:
Joined the same opinions

23 cases:
Some divergence on opinions

63 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment