diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index f4027d5a252..21bd358b261 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ Bug Fixes
 * LUCENE-4282: Automaton FuzzyQuery didnt always deliver all results.
   (Johannes Christen, Uwe Schindler, Robert Muir)
 
+* LUCENE-4289: Fix minor idf inconsistencies/inefficiencies in highlighter.
+  (Robert Muir)
+
 Changes in Runtime Behavior
 
 * LUCENE-4109: Enable position increments in the flexible queryparser by default.
diff --git a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/highlight/QueryTermExtractor.java b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/highlight/QueryTermExtractor.java
index a60422c87dd..147209f1c66 100644
--- a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/highlight/QueryTermExtractor.java
+++ b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/highlight/QueryTermExtractor.java
@@ -60,18 +60,14 @@ public final class QueryTermExtractor
 	public static final WeightedTerm[] getIdfWeightedTerms(Query query, IndexReader reader, String fieldName) 
 	{
 	    WeightedTerm[] terms=getTerms(query,false, fieldName);
-	    int totalNumDocs=reader.numDocs();
+	    int totalNumDocs=reader.maxDoc();
 	    for (int i = 0; i < terms.length; i++)
         {
 	        try
             {
                 int docFreq=reader.docFreq(new Term(fieldName,terms[i].term));
-                // docFreq counts deletes
-                if(totalNumDocs < docFreq) {
-                  docFreq = totalNumDocs;
-                }
                 //IDF algorithm taken from DefaultSimilarity class
-                float idf=(float)(Math.log((float)totalNumDocs/(double)(docFreq+1)) + 1.0);
+                float idf=(float)(Math.log(totalNumDocs/(double)(docFreq+1)) + 1.0);
                 terms[i].weight*=idf;
             } 
 	        catch (IOException e)
diff --git a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/highlight/WeightedSpanTermExtractor.java b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/highlight/WeightedSpanTermExtractor.java
index 161225b40d6..61efe7544d5 100644
--- a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/highlight/WeightedSpanTermExtractor.java
+++ b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/highlight/WeightedSpanTermExtractor.java
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ public class WeightedSpanTermExtractor {
     Map<String,WeightedSpanTerm> terms = new PositionCheckingMap<String>();
     extract(query, terms);
 
-    int totalNumDocs = reader.numDocs();
+    int totalNumDocs = reader.maxDoc();
     Set<String> weightedTerms = terms.keySet();
     Iterator<String> it = weightedTerms.iterator();
 
@@ -439,12 +439,8 @@ public class WeightedSpanTermExtractor {
       while (it.hasNext()) {
         WeightedSpanTerm weightedSpanTerm = terms.get(it.next());
         int docFreq = reader.docFreq(new Term(fieldName, weightedSpanTerm.term));
-        // docFreq counts deletes
-        if(totalNumDocs < docFreq) {
-          docFreq = totalNumDocs;
-        }
         // IDF algorithm taken from DefaultSimilarity class
-        float idf = (float) (Math.log((float) totalNumDocs / (double) (docFreq + 1)) + 1.0);
+        float idf = (float) (Math.log(totalNumDocs / (double) (docFreq + 1)) + 1.0);
         weightedSpanTerm.weight *= idf;
       }
     } finally {
diff --git a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/vectorhighlight/FieldTermStack.java b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/vectorhighlight/FieldTermStack.java
index 236437cd1b1..ac1e39c9e1e 100644
--- a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/vectorhighlight/FieldTermStack.java
+++ b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/vectorhighlight/FieldTermStack.java
@@ -95,8 +95,7 @@ public class FieldTermStack {
     DocsAndPositionsEnum dpEnum = null;
     BytesRef text;
     
-    int numDocs = reader.numDocs() - reader.numDeletedDocs();
-    float weight = 0;
+    int numDocs = reader.maxDoc();
     
     while ((text = termsEnum.next()) != null) {
       UnicodeUtil.UTF8toUTF16(text, spare);
@@ -111,13 +110,14 @@ public class FieldTermStack {
       }
 
       dpEnum.nextDoc();
+      
+      // For weight look here: http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/api/core/org/apache/lucene/search/DefaultSimilarity.html
+      final float weight = ( float ) ( Math.log( numDocs / ( double ) ( reader.docFreq( fieldName, text ) + 1 ) ) + 1.0 );
 
       final int freq = dpEnum.freq();
       
       for(int i = 0;i < freq;i++) {
         int pos = dpEnum.nextPosition();
-        // For weight look here: http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/api/core/org/apache/lucene/search/DefaultSimilarity.html
-        weight = ( float ) ( Math.log( numDocs / ( double ) ( reader.docFreq( fieldName, text ) + 1 ) ) + 1.0 );
         if (dpEnum.startOffset() < 0) {
           return; // no offsets, null snippet
         }