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

Hecht
Hecht
Busby
Busby

In 2017-2020, they participated together in 96 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 80/96 83.3%
Different opinions, same judgment 5/96 5.2%
Agreed on judgment 85/96 88.5%
Disagreed on judgment 11/96 11.5%

And 35 of those led to split (non-unanimous) opinions

Joined the same opinions 19/35 54.3%
Different opinions, same judgment 5/35 14.3%
Agreed on judgment 24/35 68.6%
Disagreed on judgment 11/35 31.4%
 

Within those 35 cases that had some split opinions:

19 cases:
Joined the same opinions

11 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment