[Avodah] KSA, MB, AhS, Chayei Adam and other codes

[David Riceman]

  This raises a tangential question.  To what extent, having grown fond 
of a code which is outside of your received chain of precedent, can you 
add it to the chain because you respect the author? I can think of one 
offhand example.  R. Haim Berlin, in his introduction to his Dad's (the 
Netziv) hiddushim on Shas, says that his Dad respected R. Akiva EIger so 
much that a few words of R. Akiva Eiger were machria for him against 
lengthy screeds by other poskim.
  More bluntly, now that you like the KSA so much, why haven't you 
started paskening with it against your previous tradition?

David Riceman