If you’re a document that someone is trying to exclude under the federal hearsay rule, the answer is 20 years:
[Rule 803:] The following are not excluded by the rule against hearsay, regardless of whether the declarant is available as a witness: …
(16) A statement in a document that is at least 20 years old and whose authenticity is established.
But wait: That’s likely to change, to a firm cutoff of 1997 or earlier, though I expect that this cutoff will change with future rules changes.
Originally Found On: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/04/28/how-old-must-you-to-be-ancient/
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