Should this refer to facet.mincount instead of facet.limit? "The default is true if facet.limit is greater than 0, false otherwise." http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SimpleFacetParameters facet.sort
Set to "true", this parameter indicates that constraints should be sorted by their count. If "false", facets will be in their natural index order (unicode). For terms in the ascii range, this will be alphabetically sorted. The default is true if facet.limit is greater than 0, false otherwise. This parameter can be specified on a per field basis.