diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 8befcfc2de..6181143577 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #2622: Latex produces empty pages after title and table of contents
 * #2640: 1.4.2 LaTeX crashes if code-block inside warning directive
 * Let LaTeX use straight quotes also in inline code (ref #2627)
+* #2351: latex crashes if enumerated lists are placed on footnotes
 
 
 Release 1.4.3 (released Jun 5, 2016)
diff --git a/sphinx/writers/latex.py b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
index b5b03bac0b..5bd6685725 100644
--- a/sphinx/writers/latex.py
+++ b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
@@ -961,9 +961,9 @@ class LaTeXTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor):
     def visit_collected_footnote(self, node):
         self.in_footnote += 1
         if 'footnotetext' in node:
-            self.body.append('\\footnotetext[%s]{\sphinxAtStartFootnote%%' % node['number'])
+            self.body.append('\\footnotetext[%s]{\sphinxAtStartFootnote%%\n' % node['number'])
         else:
-            self.body.append('\\footnote[%s]{\sphinxAtStartFootnote%%' % node['number'])
+            self.body.append('\\footnote[%s]{\sphinxAtStartFootnote%%\n' % node['number'])
 
     def depart_collected_footnote(self, node):
         self.body.append('}')
@@ -1303,12 +1303,15 @@ class LaTeXTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor):
     depart_field_body = depart_definition
 
     def visit_paragraph(self, node):
-        # insert blank line, if the paragraph follows a non-paragraph node in a compound
         index = node.parent.index(node)
         if (index > 0 and isinstance(node.parent, nodes.compound) and
                 not isinstance(node.parent[index - 1], nodes.paragraph) and
                 not isinstance(node.parent[index - 1], nodes.compound)):
+            # insert blank line, if the paragraph follows a non-paragraph node in a compound
             self.body.append('\\noindent\n')
+        elif index == 0 and isinstance(node.parent, nodes.footnote):
+            # don't insert blank line, if the paragraph is first child of a footnote
+            pass
         else:
             self.body.append('\n')