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Voting-affinity data
for the 2017-2019 Terms
(September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2019)

Hecht
Hecht
Brown
Brown

In 2017-2019, they participated together in 201 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 181/201 90.0%
Different opinions, same judgment 8/201 4.0%
Agreed on judgment 189/201 94.0%
Disagreed on judgment 12/201 6.0%

And 62 of those led to split (non-unanimous) opinions

Joined the same opinions 42/62 67.7%
Different opinions, same judgment 8/62 12.9%
Agreed on judgment 50/62 80.6%
Disagreed on judgment 12/62 19.4%
 

Within those 62 cases that had some split opinions:

42 cases:
Joined the same opinions

12 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment