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

Hecht
Hecht
Busby
Busby

In 2017-2020, they participated together in 96 signed decisions

Joined the same opinions 80/96 83.3%
Different opinions, same judgment 0/96 0.0%
Agreed on judgment 85/96 88.5%
Disagreed on judgment 11/96 11.5%

And 25 of those led to at least one dissent from the judgment

Joined the same opinions 14/25 56.0%
Different opinions, same judgment 0/25 0.0%
Agreed on judgment 14/25 56.0%
Disagreed on judgment 11/25 44.0%
 

Within those 25 cases that had a dissent:

14 cases:
Joined the same opinions

0 cases:
Some divergence on opinions

11 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment