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

Hecht
Hecht
Guzman
Guzman

In 2017-2020, they participated together in 258 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 229/258 88.8%
Different opinions, same judgment 11/258 4.3%
Agreed on judgment 240/258 93.0%
Disagreed on judgment 18/258 7.0%

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

Joined the same opinions 52/81 64.2%
Different opinions, same judgment 11/81 13.6%
Agreed on judgment 63/81 77.8%
Disagreed on judgment 18/81 22.2%
 

Within those 81 cases that had some split opinions:

52 cases:
Joined the same opinions

18 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment