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

Guzman
Guzman
Blacklock
Blacklock

In 2017-2020, they participated together in 169 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 139/169 82.2%
Different opinions, same judgment 12/169 7.1%
Agreed on judgment 151/169 89.3%
Disagreed on judgment 18/169 10.7%

And 53 of those led to split (non-unanimous) opinions

Joined the same opinions 23/53 43.4%
Different opinions, same judgment 12/53 22.6%
Agreed on judgment 35/53 66.0%
Disagreed on judgment 18/53 34.0%
 

Within those 53 cases that had some split opinions:

23 cases:
Joined the same opinions

12 cases:
Some divergence on opinions

18 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment