# Correlation of SCOTUS votes.

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**Created:** [October 22, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correlation-of-scotus-votes/558036 "2010-10-22T19:45:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correlation-of-scotus-votes/558036/7 "2010-10-22T22:52:45Z")

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> [@Captain\_Amazing](#):
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> I haven’t really read the other thread, so do you have the cite that they voted together only 65% of the time? Is that leaving out times when they agree in the judgment but write separate dissents or concurrences?

I misrecalled the pit thread.

> [@SCOTUS Wife Virginia Thomas asks Anita Hill to apologize - WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotus-wife-virginia-thomas-asks-anita-hill-to-apologize-wtf/557798/288):
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> Some numbers:
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> [Voting Patterns in SCOTUS 1956-2004](http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~pahook/product/SupremeCourt_1956-2004_pajek.jpg)
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> Scalia and Thomas voted together 67% of the time. High, but not top ten of all time.
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> Breyer and Ginsburg voted together 68% of the time, which unless my math is off, is slightly higher.
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> Warren and Marshall voted together 88% of the time.
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> Now, generally speaking, I like the side that Breyer and Ginsburg, and Warren and Marshall ended up on.
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> But, if you are going to imply that Clarence Thomas in incapable of making a decision without Scalia to guide him, what does that say about either Breyer or Ginsburg, and either Warren or Marshall?

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