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

Hecht
Hecht
Bland
Bland

In 2017-2020, they participated together in 61 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 50/61 82.0%
Different opinions, same judgment 0/61 0.0%
Agreed on judgment 52/61 85.2%
Disagreed on judgment 9/61 14.8%

And 15 of those led to at least one dissent from the judgment

Joined the same opinions 6/15 40.0%
Different opinions, same judgment 0/15 0.0%
Agreed on judgment 6/15 40.0%
Disagreed on judgment 9/15 60.0%
 

Within those 15 cases that had a dissent:

0 cases:
Some divergence on opinions

9 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment