diff --git a/src/core/components/model-example.jsx b/src/core/components/model-example.jsx
index 54c726c84fc..721ebc9fa2b 100644
--- a/src/core/components/model-example.jsx
+++ b/src/core/components/model-example.jsx
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ export default class ModelExample extends React.Component {
 
   constructor(props, context) {
     super(props, context)
-    let { getConfigs, isExecute } = this.props
+    let { getConfigs, isExecute, schema } = this.props
     let { defaultModelRendering } = getConfigs()
 
     let activeTab = defaultModelRendering
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export default class ModelExample extends React.Component {
       activeTab = "example"
     }
 
-    if(isExecute) {
+    if(isExecute || !schema) {
       activeTab = "example"
     }
 
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ export default class ModelExample extends React.Component {
           </div>
         )}
 
-        {this.state.activeTab === "model" && (
+        {schema && this.state.activeTab === "model" && (
           <div
             aria-hidden={this.state.activeTab === "example"}
             aria-labelledby={modelTabId}
diff --git a/src/core/components/response.jsx b/src/core/components/response.jsx
index 5c529afc372..24072ffb6e9 100644
--- a/src/core/components/response.jsx
+++ b/src/core/components/response.jsx
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ export default class Response extends React.Component {
     const activeContentType = this.state.responseContentType || contentType
     const activeMediaType = response.getIn(["content", activeContentType], Map({}))
     const examplesForMediaType = activeMediaType.get("examples", null)
+    const hasContent = !isOAS3 || response.get("content")
 
     // Goal: find a schema value for `schema`
     if(isOAS3) {
@@ -235,7 +236,7 @@ export default class Response extends React.Component {
             </section>
           ) : null}
 
-          { example || schema ? (
+          { hasContent && (example || schema) ? (
             <ModelExample
               specPath={specPathWithPossibleSchema}
               getComponent={ getComponent }
diff --git a/test/e2e-cypress/e2e/bugs/oas31-empty-response.cy.js b/test/e2e-cypress/e2e/bugs/oas31-empty-response.cy.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3b6a8924bd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e-cypress/e2e/bugs/oas31-empty-response.cy.js
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+describe("OAS 3.1 Empty response", () => {
+  it("should not render an example for empty reponse", () => {
+    cy.visit(
+      "/?configUrl=/configs/default-model-rendering-model.yaml&url=/documents/bugs/oas31-empty-response.yaml"
+    )
+    .get("#operations-default-get_")
+    .click()
+    .get("#operations-default-get_ [data-code=200] .response-col_description__inner")
+    .contains("no content")
+    .get("#operations-default-get_ [data-code=200] .model-example")
+    .should("not.exist")
+    .get("#operations-default-get_ [data-code=201] .response-col_description__inner")
+    .contains("no schema but an example")
+    .get("#operations-default-get_ [data-code=201] .model-example")
+    .contains('"foo": "bar"')
+    .get("#operations-default-get_ [data-code=202] .response-col_description__inner")
+    .contains("no schema but examples")
+    .get("#operations-default-get_ [data-code=202] .model-example")
+    .contains('"foo": "bar"')
+    .get("#operations-default-get_ [data-code=203] .response-col_description__inner")
+    .contains("no schema no example")
+    .get("#operations-default-get_ [data-code=203] .model-example")
+    .contains('"string"')
+  })
+})
diff --git a/test/e2e-cypress/static/configs/default-model-rendering-model.yaml b/test/e2e-cypress/static/configs/default-model-rendering-model.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c227d2054d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e-cypress/static/configs/default-model-rendering-model.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+defaultModelRendering: model
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/e2e-cypress/static/documents/bugs/oas31-empty-response.yaml b/test/e2e-cypress/static/documents/bugs/oas31-empty-response.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..573ec3530e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e-cypress/static/documents/bugs/oas31-empty-response.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+openapi: 3.1.0
+info:
+  title: Empty response test case
+  version: '1'
+paths:
+  '/':
+    get:
+      responses:
+        '200':
+          description: no content
+        '201':
+          description: no schema but an example
+          content:
+            application/json:
+              example:
+                foo: bar
+        '202':
+          description: no schema but examples
+          content:
+            application/json:
+              examples:
+                first:
+                  value:
+                    foo: bar
+                second:
+                  value:
+                    baz: foobar
+        '203':
+          description: no schema no example
+          content:
+            application/json: {}
\ No newline at end of file