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Voting-affinity data
for the 2019-2022 Terms
(September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2022)

Blacklock
Blacklock
Bland
Bland

In 2019-2022, they participated together in 198 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 156/198 78.8%
Different opinions, same judgment 18/198 9.1%
Agreed on judgment 174/198 87.9%
Disagreed on judgment 24/198 12.1%

And 73 of those led to split (non-unanimous) opinions

Joined the same opinions 31/73 42.5%
Different opinions, same judgment 18/73 24.7%
Agreed on judgment 49/73 67.1%
Disagreed on judgment 24/73 32.9%
 

Within those 73 cases that had some split opinions:

31 cases:
Joined the same opinions

18 cases:
Some divergence on opinions

24 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment