diff --git a/modin/core/storage_formats/base/query_compiler.py b/modin/core/storage_formats/base/query_compiler.py
index df21d021b82..764b32db3ed 100644
--- a/modin/core/storage_formats/base/query_compiler.py
+++ b/modin/core/storage_formats/base/query_compiler.py
@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ def merge_asof(
         tolerance=None,
         allow_exact_matches: bool = True,
         direction: str = "backward",
-    ):  # noqa: GL08
+    ):
         # Pandas fallbacks for tricky cases:
         if (
             # No idea how this works or why it does what it does; and in fact
@@ -3624,7 +3624,7 @@ def groupby_fillna(
 
     def groupby_diff(
         self, by, axis, groupby_kwargs, agg_args, agg_kwargs, drop=False
-    ):  # noqa: GL08
+    ):
         return self.groupby_agg(
             by=by,
             agg_func="diff",
@@ -3637,7 +3637,7 @@ def groupby_diff(
 
     def groupby_pct_change(
         self, by, axis, groupby_kwargs, agg_args, agg_kwargs, drop=False
-    ):  # noqa: GL08
+    ):
         return self.groupby_agg(
             by=by,
             agg_func="pct_change",
@@ -3945,7 +3945,7 @@ def groupby_ohlc(
         agg_args,
         agg_kwargs,
         is_df,
-    ):  # noqa: GL08
+    ):
         if not is_df:
             return self.groupby_agg(
                 by=by,
@@ -4609,7 +4609,7 @@ def shift(
         freq,
         axis,
         fill_value,
-    ):  # noqa: GL08
+    ):
         return DataFrameDefault.register(pandas.DataFrame.shift)(
             self, periods, freq, axis, fill_value
         )
diff --git a/modin/utils.py b/modin/utils.py
index ee72620fa7b..a3ed1dc91a3 100644
--- a/modin/utils.py
+++ b/modin/utils.py
@@ -310,9 +310,6 @@ def _replace_doc(
     target_doc = target_obj.__doc__ or ""
     overwrite = overwrite or not target_doc
     doc = source_doc if overwrite else target_doc
-    if doc == "":
-        # Empty docstrings do not need to be inherited
-        return
 
     if parent_cls and not attr_name:
         if isinstance(target_obj, property):