diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index bb93d9d802..4876e6ace0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Merged from 4.1:
  * Memoize Cassandra verion and add a backoff interval for failed schema pulls (CASSANDRA-18902)
  * Fix StackOverflowError on ALTER after many previous schema changes (CASSANDRA-19166)
 Merged from 4.0:
+ * Remove redundant code in StorageProxy#sendToHintedReplicas (CASSANDRA-19412)
  * Remove bashisms for mx4j tool in cassandra-env.sh (CASSANDRA-19416)
  * Add new concurrent_merkle_tree_requests config property to prevent OOM during multi-range and/or multi-table repairs (CASSANDRA-19336)
  * Skip version check if an endpoint is dead state in Gossiper#upgradeFromVersionSupplier (CASSANDRA-19187)
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageProxy.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageProxy.java
index e842ba7495..4f24babbb1 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageProxy.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageProxy.java
@@ -1478,8 +1478,6 @@ public class StorageProxy implements StorageProxyMBean
         Replica localReplica = null;
         Collection<Replica> endpointsToHint = null;
 
-        List<InetAddressAndPort> backPressureHosts = null;
-
         // For performance, Mutation caches serialized buffers that are computed lazily in serializedBuffer(). That
         // computation is not synchronized however and we will potentially call that method concurrently for each
         // dispatched message (not that concurrent calls to serializedBuffer() are "unsafe" per se, just that they
@@ -1528,11 +1526,6 @@ public class StorageProxy implements StorageProxyMBean
 
                         messages.add(destination);
                     }
-
-                    if (backPressureHosts == null)
-                        backPressureHosts = new ArrayList<>(plan.contacts().size());
-
-                    backPressureHosts.add(destination.endpoint());
                 }
             }
             else