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Voting-affinity data
for the 2014-2017 Terms
(September 1, 2013 to August 31, 2017)

Willett
Willett
Brown
Brown

In 2014-2017, they participated together in 230 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 192/230 83.5%
Different opinions, same judgment 14/230 6.1%
Agreed on judgment 206/230 89.6%
Disagreed on judgment 24/230 10.4%

And 83 of those led to split (non-unanimous) opinions

Joined the same opinions 45/83 54.2%
Different opinions, same judgment 14/83 16.9%
Agreed on judgment 59/83 71.1%
Disagreed on judgment 24/83 28.9%
 

Within those 83 cases that had some split opinions:

45 cases:
Joined the same opinions

14 cases:
Some divergence on opinions

24 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment