diff --git a/client/components/cards/cardDetails.js b/client/components/cards/cardDetails.js
index 12d212248..66f66c3eb 100644
--- a/client/components/cards/cardDetails.js
+++ b/client/components/cards/cardDetails.js
@@ -658,7 +658,6 @@ Template.cardDetailsActionsPopup.events({
   'click .js-export-card': Popup.open('exportCard'),
   'click .js-members': Popup.open('cardMembers'),
   'click .js-assignees': Popup.open('cardAssignees'),
-  'click .js-labels': Popup.open('cardLabels'),
   'click .js-attachments': Popup.open('cardAttachments'),
   'click .js-start-voting': Popup.open('cardStartVoting'),
   'click .js-start-planning-poker': Popup.open('cardStartPlanningPoker'),
diff --git a/client/components/cards/minicard.jade b/client/components/cards/minicard.jade
index 45e48e996..c03b7fb4a 100644
--- a/client/components/cards/minicard.jade
+++ b/client/components/cards/minicard.jade
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ template(name="minicard")
       .minicard-labels
         each labels
           unless hiddenMinicardLabelText
-            span.card-label(class="card-label-{{color}}" title=name)
+            span.js-card-label.card-label(class="card-label-{{color}}" title=name)
               +viewer
                 = name
           if hiddenMinicardLabelText
diff --git a/client/components/cards/minicard.js b/client/components/cards/minicard.js
index 4f8432621..796ce6a6a 100644
--- a/client/components/cards/minicard.js
+++ b/client/components/cards/minicard.js
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ BlazeComponent.extendComponent({
     return false;
   },
 
+  /** opens the card label popup only if clicked onto a label
+   * <li> this is necessary to have the data context of the minicard.
+   *      if .js-card-label is used at click event, then only the data context of the label itself is available at this.currentData()
+   */
+  cardLabelsPopup(event) {
+    if (this.find('.js-card-label:hover')) {
+      Popup.open("cardLabels")(event, this.currentData());
+    }
+  },
+
   events() {
     return [
       {
@@ -57,8 +67,6 @@ BlazeComponent.extendComponent({
           else if (this.data().isLinkedBoard())
             Utils.goBoardId(this.data().linkedId);
         },
-      },
-      {
         'click .js-toggle-minicard-label-text'() {
           if (window.localStorage.getItem('hiddenMinicardLabelText')) {
             window.localStorage.removeItem('hiddenMinicardLabelText'); //true
@@ -66,9 +74,8 @@ BlazeComponent.extendComponent({
             window.localStorage.setItem('hiddenMinicardLabelText', 'true'); //true
           }
         },
-      },
-      {
         'click span.badge-icon.fa.fa-sort, click span.badge-text.check-list-sort' : Popup.open("editCardSortOrder"),
+        'click .minicard-labels' : this.cardLabelsPopup,
       }
     ];
   },
diff --git a/client/lib/popup.js b/client/lib/popup.js
index fa9e125bb..1e4dfa68a 100644
--- a/client/lib/popup.js
+++ b/client/lib/popup.js
@@ -30,7 +30,11 @@ window.Popup = new (class {
     function clickFromPopup(evt) {
       return $(evt.target).closest('.js-pop-over').length !== 0;
     }
-    return function(evt) {
+    /** opens the popup
+     * @param evt the current event
+     * @param dataContextIfCurrentDataIsUndefined use this dataContext if this.currentData() is undefined
+     */
+    return function(evt, dataContextIfCurrentDataIsUndefined) {
       // If a popup is already opened, clicking again on the opener element
       // should close it -- and interrupt the current `open` function.
       if (self.isOpen()) {
@@ -67,7 +71,7 @@ window.Popup = new (class {
         title: self._getTitle(popupName),
         depth: self._stack.length,
         offset: self._getOffset(openerElement),
-        dataContext: (this && this.currentData && this.currentData()) || this,
+        dataContext: (this && this.currentData && this.currentData()) || dataContextIfCurrentDataIsUndefined || this,
       });
 
       // If there are no popup currently opened we use the Blaze API to render