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Voting-affinity data
for the 2010-2020 Terms
(September 1, 2009 to August 31, 2020)

Johnson
Johnson
Brown
Brown

In 2010-2020, they participated together in 446 decisions (including per curiams)

Joined the same opinions 391/446 87.7%
Different opinions, same judgment 10/446 2.2%
Agreed on judgment 401/446 89.9%
Disagreed on judgment 45/446 10.1%

And 107 of those led to split (non-unanimous) opinions

Joined the same opinions 52/107 48.6%
Different opinions, same judgment 10/107 9.3%
Agreed on judgment 62/107 57.9%
Disagreed on judgment 45/107 42.1%
 

Within those 107 cases that had some split opinions:

52 cases:
Joined the same opinions

10 cases:
Some divergence on opinions

45 cases:
Disagreed about the judgment