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

Hecht
Hecht
Blacklock
Blacklock

In 2017-2020, they participated together in 177 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 152/177 85.9%
Different opinions, same judgment 2/177 1.1%
Agreed on judgment 159/177 89.8%
Disagreed on judgment 18/177 10.2%

And 39 of those led to at least one dissent from the judgment

Joined the same opinions 19/39 48.7%
Different opinions, same judgment 2/39 5.1%
Agreed on judgment 21/39 53.8%
Disagreed on judgment 18/39 46.2%
 

Within those 39 cases that had a dissent:

19 cases:
Joined the same opinions

18 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment