diff --git a/Classes/Common/SolrSearchResult/ResultDocument.php b/Classes/Common/SolrSearchResult/ResultDocument.php
index 1a1ebe2c27..f8fb2f489e 100644
--- a/Classes/Common/SolrSearchResult/ResultDocument.php
+++ b/Classes/Common/SolrSearchResult/ResultDocument.php
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ public function __construct($record, $highlighting, $fields) {
         $this->page = $record[$fields['page']];
 
         $highlightingForRecord = $highlighting[$record[$fields['id']]][$fields['fulltext']];
-        $this->snippetsForRecord = $highlightingForRecord['snippets'];
+        $this->snippetsForRecord = is_array($highlightingForRecord['snippets']) ? $highlightingForRecord['snippets'] : [];
 
         $this->parseSnippets();
         $this->parsePages();