Index: lucene/facet/src/test/org/apache/lucene/facet/search/TestFacetsCollector.java
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--- lucene/facet/src/test/org/apache/lucene/facet/search/TestFacetsCollector.java	(revision 0)
+++ lucene/facet/src/test/org/apache/lucene/facet/search/TestFacetsCollector.java	(working copy)
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+package org.apache.lucene.facet.search;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.core.KeywordAnalyzer;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Field.Store;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.StringField;
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.index.CategoryDocumentBuilder;
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.search.params.FacetSearchParams;
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.search.params.ScoreFacetRequest;
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.search.results.FacetResult;
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.taxonomy.CategoryPath;
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.taxonomy.TaxonomyWriter;
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.taxonomy.directory.DirectoryTaxonomyReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.taxonomy.directory.DirectoryTaxonomyWriter;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriterConfig;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.MatchAllDocsQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.MultiCollector;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.TopScoreDocCollector;
+import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+public class TestFacetsCollector extends LuceneTestCase {
+
+  @Test
+  public void testFacetsWithDocScore() throws Exception {
+    Directory indexDir = newDirectory();
+    Directory taxoDir = newDirectory();
+
+    TaxonomyWriter taxonomyWriter = new DirectoryTaxonomyWriter(taxoDir);
+    IndexWriter iw = new IndexWriter(indexDir, new IndexWriterConfig(
+        TEST_VERSION_CURRENT, new KeywordAnalyzer()));
+
+    CategoryDocumentBuilder cdb = new CategoryDocumentBuilder(taxonomyWriter);
+    Iterable<CategoryPath> cats = Arrays.asList(new CategoryPath("a"));
+    for(int i = atLeast(2000); i > 0; --i) {
+      Document doc = new Document();
+      doc.add(new StringField("f", "v", Store.NO));
+      cdb.setCategoryPaths(cats);
+      iw.addDocument(cdb.build(doc));
+    }
+    
+    taxonomyWriter.close();
+    iw.close();
+    
+    FacetSearchParams sParams = new FacetSearchParams();
+    sParams.addFacetRequest(new ScoreFacetRequest(new CategoryPath("a"), 10));
+    
+    DirectoryReader r = DirectoryReader.open(indexDir);
+    DirectoryTaxonomyReader taxo = new DirectoryTaxonomyReader(taxoDir);
+    
+    FacetsCollector fc = new FacetsCollector(sParams, r, taxo);
+    TopScoreDocCollector topDocs = TopScoreDocCollector.create(10, false);
+    new IndexSearcher(r).search(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), MultiCollector.wrap(fc, topDocs));
+    
+    List<FacetResult> res = fc.getFacetResults();
+    double value = res.get(0).getFacetResultNode().getValue();
+    double expected = topDocs.topDocs().getMaxScore() * r.numDocs();
+    assertEquals(expected, value, 1E-10);
+    
+    IOUtils.close(taxo, taxoDir, r, indexDir);
+  }
+  
+}
Index: lucene/facet/src/java/org/apache/lucene/facet/search/FacetsCollector.java
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--- lucene/facet/src/java/org/apache/lucene/facet/search/FacetsCollector.java	(revision 1364227)
+++ lucene/facet/src/java/org/apache/lucene/facet/search/FacetsCollector.java	(working copy)
@@ -72,12 +72,14 @@
   protected ScoredDocIdCollector initScoredDocCollector(
       FacetSearchParams facetSearchParams, IndexReader indexReader,
       TaxonomyReader taxonomyReader) {
+    boolean scoresNeeded = false;
     for (FacetRequest frq : facetSearchParams.getFacetRequests()) {
       if (frq.requireDocumentScore()) {
-        return ScoredDocIdCollector.create(1000, true);
+        scoresNeeded = true;
+        break;
       }
     }
-    return ScoredDocIdCollector.create(indexReader.maxDoc(), false);
+    return ScoredDocIdCollector.create(indexReader.maxDoc(), scoresNeeded);
   }
 
   /**
Index: lucene/facet/src/java/org/apache/lucene/facet/search/ScoredDocIdCollector.java
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--- lucene/facet/src/java/org/apache/lucene/facet/search/ScoredDocIdCollector.java	(revision 1364227)
+++ lucene/facet/src/java/org/apache/lucene/facet/search/ScoredDocIdCollector.java	(working copy)
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@
     @SuppressWarnings("synthetic-access")
     public ScoringDocIdCollector(int maxDoc) {
       super(maxDoc);
-      scores = new float[maxDoc];
+      // Starts with 64, grows as neccesary 
+      scores = new float[64];
     }
 
     @Override