# "The Supreme Court overturned Brown v. Board of Education" **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 5, 2011, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-supreme-court-overturned-brown-v-board-of-education/577246 "2011-04-05T06:49:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-supreme-court-overturned-brown-v-board-of-education/577246/16 "2011-04-05T16:40:04Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Not to hijack, but you think it would be a simple matter to make a 9x9 matrix with the percentage of time each justice votes with every other justice. Is there such a chart online? I did such a thing a few months ago in another thread here; my post with the raw data is attached. Partly due to laziness I restricted attention to 5-4 decisions. In the post I comment on the correlations, but don’t actually provide an explicit 9x9 matrix. I might do it on this data for a smile, but am unmotivated to extract the raw data again for non 5-4 decisions. > [@Correlation of SCOTUS votes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correlation-of-scotus-votes/558036/22): > > It may be wise, as you suggest, to restrict attention to 5-4 decisions, since that is when the vote “counts.” I did my own study, and found that Scalia and Thomas were on the same side in 102 out of 113 five-four decisions, more than any other pair. > > From Wikipedia, I reconstructed a database of 580 Supreme Court decisions for the years 2001-2009. Of these, 113 decisions were made by a 5-4 vote. I confined my analysis to those 113 cases. > > I found that the 4 “liberals” (Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer and either Souter or Sotomayor) voted the same way on 83 of the cases, split 3-1 on 18 of the cases, and split 2-2 on 12 of the cases. > > Of the 83 five-four decisions where “liberals” were united, they lost 52 and won the remainder with the help of Kennedy (18), O’Connor (10), Scalia (2), Thomas (1). > > Of the 18 five-four decisions where “liberals” were split 3-1, they lost 11 despite help from O’Connor (5), Kennedy (2), Scalia (2), Thomas (1), Rehnquist (1), and won 7. > > By the way, when groups of 2 judges are considered instead of groups of 4, no pair of “liberals” outperformed Scalia and Thomas for correlation: this pair were on the same side in 102 out of the 113 five-four decisions. > > Here are the detailed votes in the 113 five-four decisions: > The 12 vote columns correspond to > > 1. Rehnquist > 2. Roberts > 3. Stevens > 4. O’Connor > 5. Scalia > 6. Kennedy > 7. 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