I do the same; it more clearly shows intent IMO. I think your second example is more ubiquitous because of the teaching that "jumps" are bad; break, continue,

I do the same; it more clearly shows intent IMO. I think your second example is more ubiquitous because of the teaching that "jumps" are bad; break, continue, goto... all of them bad. Don't do that. Etc. Where I use this pattern a lot is argument validation on the tops of method bodies. And sometimes, "avoid the impossible conditions early" rule if (something_bad) return do_good_stuff() ...