diff --git a/lucene/queries/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQuery.java b/lucene/queries/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQuery.java
index 53ed403fdfe..3e96a31fb96 100644
--- a/lucene/queries/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQuery.java
+++ b/lucene/queries/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQuery.java
@@ -257,8 +257,6 @@ public class CommonTermsQuery extends Query {
    * Returns true iff {@link Similarity#coord(int,int)} is disabled in scoring
    * for the high and low frequency query instance. The top level query will
    * always disable coords.
-   * 
-   * @see #CommonTermsQuery(Occur, Occur, float, boolean)
    */
   public boolean isCoordDisabled() {
     return disableCoord;
diff --git a/lucene/queries/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQueryTest.java b/lucene/queries/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQueryTest.java
index c551de72fb5..7571753248d 100644
--- a/lucene/queries/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQueryTest.java
+++ b/lucene/queries/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQueryTest.java
@@ -263,7 +263,6 @@ public class CommonTermsQueryTest extends LuceneTestCase {
       }
       
       TopDocs cqSearch = searcher.search(cq, reader.maxDoc());
-      QueryUtils.check(random(), cq, searcher);
       
       TopDocs verifySearch = searcher.search(verifyQuery, reader.maxDoc());
       assertEquals(verifySearch.totalHits, cqSearch.totalHits);
@@ -277,6 +276,17 @@ public class CommonTermsQueryTest extends LuceneTestCase {
       }
       
       assertTrue(hits.isEmpty());
+      
+      /*
+       *  need to force merge here since QueryUtils adds checks based
+       *  on leave readers which have different statistics than the top
+       *  level reader if we have more than one segment. This could 
+       *  result in a different query / results.
+       */
+      w.forceMerge(1); 
+      DirectoryReader reader2 = w.getReader();
+      QueryUtils.check(random(), cq, newSearcher(reader2));
+      reader2.close();
     } finally {
       reader.close();
       wrapper.close();