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On the other hand, this is very useful. If you click on “levels of agreement,” you can see how voting pairs shake out throughout the tenure of the current Court in non-unanimous cases. Although it’s been declining a bit, Scalia/Thomas is still the #1 pair, and they still disagree (in vote outcome; obviously it would be higher if you counted separate opinions) 21% of the time. Rehnquist/Kennedy are #2. The least likely pair is Scalia/Stevens, at 14%. And for people who think that O’Connor was a “centrist,” note that she’s twice as likely to agree with Rehnquist as with Stevens.