diff --git a/ci/code_checks.sh b/ci/code_checks.sh
index 07c99b39e83e82..ab7bd7895a596c 100755
--- a/ci/code_checks.sh
+++ b/ci/code_checks.sh
@@ -190,6 +190,10 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "patterns" ]]; then
     invgrep -R --include="*.rst" ".. ipython ::" doc/source
     RET=$(($RET + $?)) ; echo $MSG "DONE"
 
+    MSG='Check for extra blank lines after the class definition' ; echo $MSG
+    invgrep -R --include="*.py" --include="*.pyx" -E 'class.*:\n\n( )+"""' .
+    RET=$(($RET + $?)) ; echo $MSG "DONE"
+
     MSG='Check that no file in the repo contains trailing whitespaces' ; echo $MSG
     set -o pipefail
     if [[ "$AZURE" == "true" ]]; then