The example you provide, path:"some text", will list all files in a folder “some text”. To clarify your question, you may want to correct. Probably you mean `path:“some path” “some text”? Then you probably have subfolders under the path that you search? It is my impression that the default sort order is “path” then “filename”.
Indeed it would be good to be able to change the sort order, the way you can do with Search in the left pane. That would require implementing some query syntax. This is currently not possible and thus potentially a feature request.