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Voting-affinity data
for the 2017-2020 Terms
(September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2020)

Boyd
Boyd
Brown
Brown

In 2017-2020, they participated together in 195 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 153/195 78.5%
Different opinions, same judgment 13/195 6.7%
Agreed on judgment 166/195 85.1%
Disagreed on judgment 29/195 14.9%

And 60 of those led to split (non-unanimous) opinions

Joined the same opinions 18/60 30.0%
Different opinions, same judgment 13/60 21.7%
Agreed on judgment 31/60 51.7%
Disagreed on judgment 29/60 48.3%
 

Within those 60 cases that had some split opinions:

18 cases:
Joined the same opinions

13 cases:
Some divergence on opinions

29 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment