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

Boyd
Boyd
Devine
Devine

In 2017-2020, they participated together in 262 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 212/262 80.9%
Different opinions, same judgment 17/262 6.5%
Agreed on judgment 229/262 87.4%
Disagreed on judgment 33/262 12.6%

And 82 of those led to split (non-unanimous) opinions

Joined the same opinions 32/82 39.0%
Different opinions, same judgment 17/82 20.7%
Agreed on judgment 49/82 59.8%
Disagreed on judgment 33/82 40.2%
 

Within those 82 cases that had some split opinions:

32 cases:
Joined the same opinions

17 cases:
Some divergence on opinions

33 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment