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Voting-affinity data
for the 2010-2017 Terms
(September 1, 2009 to August 31, 2017)

Boyd
Boyd
Brown
Brown

In 2010-2017, they participated together in 225 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 168/225 74.7%
Different opinions, same judgment 17/225 7.6%
Agreed on judgment 185/225 82.2%
Disagreed on judgment 40/225 17.8%

And 81 of those led to split (non-unanimous) opinions

Joined the same opinions 24/81 29.6%
Different opinions, same judgment 17/81 21.0%
Agreed on judgment 41/81 50.6%
Disagreed on judgment 40/81 49.4%
 

Within those 81 cases that had some split opinions:

24 cases:
Joined the same opinions

17 cases:
Some divergence on opinions

40 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment