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Voting-affinity data
for the 2017-2019 Terms
(September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2019)

Johnson
Johnson
Devine
Devine

In 2017-2019, they participated together in 141 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 114/141 80.9%
Different opinions, same judgment 5/141 3.5%
Agreed on judgment 119/141 84.4%
Disagreed on judgment 22/141 15.6%

And 45 of those led to split (non-unanimous) opinions

Joined the same opinions 18/45 40.0%
Different opinions, same judgment 5/45 11.1%
Agreed on judgment 23/45 51.1%
Disagreed on judgment 22/45 48.9%
 

Within those 45 cases that had some split opinions:

18 cases:
Joined the same opinions

22 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment