diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/sizes/MethodCountCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/sizes/MethodCountCheck.java
index 24a93d5d7..76adfb142 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/sizes/MethodCountCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/sizes/MethodCountCheck.java
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ public final class MethodCountCheck extends Check
     };
 
     /** default maximum number of methods */
-    private static final int DEFAULT_MAX_METHODS = 999;
+    private static final int DEFAULT_MAX_METHODS = 100;
     /** Maximum private methods. */
     private int mMaxPrivate = DEFAULT_MAX_METHODS;
     /** Maximum package methods. */
diff --git a/src/xdocs/availablechecks.xml b/src/xdocs/availablechecks.xml
index c1e8777c3..851a3187f 100644
--- a/src/xdocs/availablechecks.xml
+++ b/src/xdocs/availablechecks.xml
@@ -353,6 +353,10 @@
           Checks that instance variable names conform to a format specified
         by the format property.</td>
       </tr>
+      <tr>
+        <td><a href="config_sizes.html#MethodCount">MethodCount</a></td>
+        <td>Checks the number of methods declared in each type.</td>
+      </tr>
       <tr>
         <td><a href="config_sizes.html#MethodLength">MethodLength</a></td>
         <td>
diff --git a/src/xdocs/config_sizes.xml b/src/xdocs/config_sizes.xml
index 4d6c27b84..5ece32391 100755
--- a/src/xdocs/config_sizes.xml
+++ b/src/xdocs/config_sizes.xml
@@ -525,5 +525,88 @@
       </subsection>
     </section>
 
+    <section name="MethodCount">
+      <subsection name="Description">
+        <p>
+          Checks the number of methods declared in each type. This
+          includes the number of each scope (<code>private</code>,
+          <code>package</code>, <code>protected</code> and
+          <code>public</code>) as well as an overall total.
+        </p>
+      </subsection>
+
+      <subsection name="Properties">
+        <table>
+          <tr>
+            <th>name</th>
+            <th>description</th>
+            <th>type</th>
+            <th>default value</th>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>maxTotal</td>
+            <td>maximum allowable number of methods at all scope levels</td>
+            <td><a href="property_types.html#integer">integer</a></td>
+            <td>100</td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>maxPrivate</td>
+            <td>maximum allowable number of <code>private</code> methods</td>
+            <td><a href="property_types.html#integer">integer</a></td>
+            <td>100</td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>maxPackage</td>
+            <td>maximum allowable number of <code>package</code> methods</td>
+            <td><a href="property_types.html#integer">integer</a></td>
+            <td>100</td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>maxProtected</td>
+            <td>maximum allowable number of <code>protected</code> methods</td>
+            <td><a href="property_types.html#integer">integer</a></td>
+            <td>100</td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>maxPublic</td>
+            <td>maximum allowable number of <code>public</code> methods</td>
+            <td><a href="property_types.html#integer">integer</a></td>
+            <td>100</td>
+          </tr>
+        </table>
+      </subsection>
+
+      <subsection name="Examples">
+        <p>
+          To configure the check with defaults:
+        </p>
+        <source>
+&lt;module name="MethodCount"/&gt;
+        </source>
+
+        <p>
+          To configure the check to allow at most 30 methods per type:
+        </p>
+        <source>
+&lt;module name="MethodCount"&gt;
+      &lt;property name="maxTotal" value="30"/&gt;
+&lt;/module&gt;
+        </source>
+
+      </subsection>
+
+      <subsection name="Package">
+        <p>
+          com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.sizes
+        </p>
+      </subsection>
+
+      <subsection name="Parent Module">
+        <p>
+          <a href="config.html#TreeWalker">TreeWalker</a>
+        </p>
+      </subsection>
+    </section>
+
   </body>
 </document>
diff --git a/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml b/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
index 0e1597492..0886643db 100755
--- a/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
+++ b/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@
           depth (default = 1). Thanks to Alexander Jesse for patch
           #1151673.
         </li>
+        <li>
+          Added <a href="config_sizes.html#MethodCount">MethodCount</a>
+          that checks the number of methods declared in each type. This
+          includes the number of each scope (<code>private</code>,
+          <code>package</code>, <code>protected</code> and
+          <code>public</code>) as well as an overall total. Thanks to
+          Alexander Jesse for patch #1151669, which was the inspiration.
+        </li>
       </ul>
       <p>Bug fixes:</p>
       <ul>