diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java
index 0078c62392c..ccef36b7b3b 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ public class IndexSearcher {
 
       private final HitsThresholdChecker hitsThresholdChecker = (executor == null || leafSlices.length <= 1) ? HitsThresholdChecker.create(TOTAL_HITS_THRESHOLD) :
           HitsThresholdChecker.createShared(TOTAL_HITS_THRESHOLD);
-      private final BottomValueChecker bottomValueChecker = (executor ==null || leafSlices.length <= 1) ? BottomValueChecker.createMaxBottomScoreChecker() : null;
+      private final BottomValueChecker bottomValueChecker = (executor == null || leafSlices.length <= 1) ? BottomValueChecker.createMaxBottomScoreChecker() : null;
 
       @Override
       public TopFieldCollector newCollector() throws IOException {